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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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Creating a dashboard drillthrough link should allow us to target shortcuts

Many orgs use shortcuts as a mechanism to simplify access to reports and dashboards. As such, it should be possible to use shortcuts for actions that would affect the target of the shortcuts. Shortcuts to reports and explorations should be conside...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

WCA:Latest versions of WCA should be supported on Aqua stack(Eclipse 4.31(2024_03)

The latest versions of WCA does not support the Aqua Eclipse version used by many IBM products. Eclipse 4.31 is considered Long Term Support, via the IBM Eclipse SDK and Aqua teams, and the latest WCA version should provide support for this versio...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos Assistant Insight to Add the Total Risk Insight.

When querying Cognos Assistant with “Show all active risk by business entity,” the assistant generates multiple insights. One of the insights displayed is: “Total number of results for active risk, across all business entities, is 88.” However, th...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Ability to select multiple Queries

You can only select one query at a time to copy/move etc. It would be better to be able to Ctrl+select or select+shift+select to select more than one.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted
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Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration