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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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The ability to restrict software features on a per-user basis.

Operations will be stabilized if administrators can configure the system to prevent users from accessing features that cause instability.
28 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Please release the FIX PACK.

The FIX application process will be simplified for end-users and administrators
28 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Submitted

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
28 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Audit for Schedules

The Cognos Audit package should be able to report on All schedules in Cognos for all users with details and the list of recipients for the report. This is helpful for internal and external audits for security to identify if the report is going to ...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Need a way to find list of reports that are written using user-defined sql

We need a way to find a list of reports that are written using user-defined sql.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration