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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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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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Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drilltrough - View Report as Excelsheet

Our Cognos Team is now digging into dashboards and would like to enhance the dashboards drilltrough behaviour. When doing a drilltrough from a dashboard to a report, the resulting report will always be opened and displayed as a HTML page.Although ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set limit, that can't be overridden, to number of records retrieved by a query

I know about the Governor setting "Maximum Number of Retrieved Rows", but this can be overridden by modifying the query property "Maximum rows retrieved" directly in the report.I would like the ability to set a limit that cannot be overridden.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Support for Multiple SQL Like Pattern matches in Report studio

Hi Team, While migrating to Cognos 12. * Query studio ois no longer supported and users have to migrate to Report studio . Several users have expressed concerns regarding the following scenario: they were able to add multiple SQL patterns in Query...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Have Sticky Filters on Dashboards

I would like to have a dashboard with defined filters where users could view the Dashboard and in view mode change the filter values and NOT have to save the Dashboard. The next time they open the Dashboard, it would have their last filter values....
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Remove _en-us suffix when sending reports in Event Studio

I'm sending reports in excel format to a system to automatically load the data. However, the system does not like the suffix _en-us, specifically the dash.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration