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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.

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.

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Generate PDF documents from documents stored in OpenPages

A new feature for converting Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF would be very useful. Users can upload documents in various formats to OpenPages, but reports for regulatory bodies must be generated in PDF format. With this feature, the...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Consistent Navigational views for Calculations, Workflows and Views

Currently when viewing all the views, you can filter by Object Type or view name but similar functionality doesn't exist on Workflows and Calculations which makes it difficult to search for Workflows and Calculations. Just to summarize, we need th...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow renewal of Cognos internal certificates PRIOR to expiration

Currently, Cognos Analytics only renews its internal certificates for https connections upon expiry. Once certificates are expired, the certificates can be renewed by stopping services, saving config, and then starting up services. If we want to f...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to update data within Grid

When viewing data in a Grid view - be it the master grid view or a grid within a task view, it would be nice to have an edit mode toggle similar to how we currently have in task view where users can update attributes directly from the grid instead...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Ability to save migration variables

While exporting configuration, there is no way to check what variables were selected and exported and imported.
22 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

service level backup for openpages

would need automated service level backup for open pages alone so in cases where there are multiple services being consumed and a cluster level backup might loose progress in restoration, scenario 1:customer is using openpages and cognos but two d...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas 0 Submitted