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

Using the ADDI Dataset flow to enable tracing of correspondence between input and output files of an assembler program

In the case of assembler programs, it is not possible to identify the relationship of the data set flow taking into account the input and output files. I would like to be able to do this.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Enabling Concurrent Query Execution for Master-Detail Relationships in Reports

Concurrent query execution for reports containing multiple layout components (e.g., lists, crosstabs) generally works well when properly configured. However, there are specific scenarios where concurrent query execution is not possible. One notabl...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Request for ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Button Formatting

Can we request an enhancement to Cognos to incorporate innate style changes for the “Finish” prompt button so it is visually different when there are incomplete required prompts? I did a search and the solutions all required javascript or variable...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Eliminating Mandatory Master-Detail Relationships if same query is tied to page and crosstab/chart

Currently, when the same query is tied to both the page and the crosstab/visualization, the product requires defining a master-detail relationship. While this behavior is consistent across visualizations, crosstabs, and earlier product versions, i...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Accessibility

According to the Accessibility Conformance Report currently only the Content Navigation (including Manage options), and report output, are ‘supported’ when it comes to accessibility. This means navigating in any of the Studios and Cognos Administr...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted