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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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  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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Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

There simply isn't an option to sort in the legacy admin portal on users in the Cognos namespace. When there are hundreds of users in a group that is unsorted it is difficult to find a user. I suggest a new sort feature be added to the glass UI. F...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Add Action Menu (more button) to Recent section under the Hamburger Menu

In 11.2.2, when I go to recent in the hamburger menu, I can only remove from recent. I used to be able to share, copy, move, etc. I would like to be able to do these things again.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration