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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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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.

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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

Require Databand integration to AbInitio ETL

Require Databand integration to AbInitio ETL to be able to observe AbInitio data pipelines and other data pipelines from Databand
almost 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 0 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

Integration with Ab Initio

In certain countries Ab Initio has a huge presence, such as south Africa
about 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 0 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Allow users to specify the alert message that should be sent to receivers

Databand currently uses a default message template for our alert receivers. The template includes the fields that are considered to be the most relevant/important in evaluating an alert at a high level. Since many customers have escalation policie...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Hashcorp Vault secrets management support

Bank of America uses Hashicorp Vault for secrets management in a containerized environment. Databand must be able to support Hashicorp Vault.
about 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 0 Under review