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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Advanced/relative date filter

Add on a dashboard and report prompt the ability to filter for a date or date range using the following: today, yesterday, this week/month/year, last x days/week/month/year, fiscal filtering. This type of control or functionality is a staple of ma...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Run reports into sharepoint location

Add option to export report outputs directly into sharepoint as target location so that users/teams can directly consume the reports from there.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules should be user-friendly. More like a Folder tree should be there which can clicked easily. Drill down approach wastes a lot of time.

The Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules feature enhances user experience by introducing an intuitive, clickable folder tree structure. This eliminates the need for time-consuming drill-down approaches, allowing users to quickly access...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

IDAA loader message HLOU5902S appearing in a Db2 utility running in batch address space.

Issue : DB2 utility running a check index all on a non-accelerated table(space) gave below messages HLOU5902S and HLOU5903W that appear misleading; when the accelerator loader should not be coming into picture here. The DSNUPROC for the DSNUTILB h...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration