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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Setting to keep descending objects always aligned with the primary parent folder

While not a one-size-fits-all solution, we found that many clients prefer to keep object instances aligned in folders that match the primary ancestor. E.g. if an issue was originally created under one entity, and they decide to switch the ownershi...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Planned for future release

TFUI - Enable Workflow Validations and Operations on SAVE

Many of the data quality rules span objects - Eg. Impact booking date must be GT Event Occurrence Date. Form rules only allow for rules on a single object so cannot be used. Workflow rules for validations and operations only run on workflow transi...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Exporting TASK UI using Object Manager

We are deploying TASK UI using the object manager however there is a limitations on the color scheme and labels(section labels) that they are not included when we run it using object manager. We didn't try the import configurations as when we di...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Global Search results additional field

In the Standard interface it was possible to add an extra field for Global search results. This is no longer possible with version 8.3 which does not include anymore the Standard Interface. I would like to request to make available in 8.3 the opti...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure auto retry on scheduler processes

WK import is scheduled to run daily. However, we see a failure in this process on average 1-4 times per month. Each time it fails, we receive an email notifying us of the failure and we have to go in and manually rerun the process. 95% of the time...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration