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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enabling the use of hidden columns

This would enable sorting according to a different criterion than the one displayed. Example: The product is displayed, but it should be sorted according to the product key. In addition, these values could be used in the drill-through to the repor...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
608 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
538 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
511 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Select a delivery method while running a report with full interactivity

When running an ad hoc report from the Cognos portal, there is a noticeable difference between full interactivity mode and classic mode. The option to select a delivery method is only available in classic mode, meaning users cannot send the report...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review
338 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration