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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Possibility to set userid/password via script

We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Better support for rendering CA Dashboarding visializations on a mobile device

Rendering of charts on mobile device in Cognos Analytics is challenging. Navigation, readability, usability are not optimized for a mobile device
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support SAP BW 7.52 with IBM Cognos

Our version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is 10.2.2.5. We are currently using version of SAP BW 7.32. My company will like to advance to version SAP BW 7.5x. However I did not find this version on your Software Product Compatibility Reports....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA 11.0.x unable

Need ability to use a PA 2.0.x instance, in IntegratedSecurityMode=5 as a data source for multiple CA 11.0.x environments. In latest TS000108380 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg2165...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add 'Time' to Report/object date modified properties

I create roughly 10 reports a day. Sometimes I want to choose a certain version but without the time it is hard to tell which version was the latest to be modified.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAPTCHA mechanism

A captcha mechanism should be implemented in all forms.It is recommended the CAPTCHAs to be validated on the server side. It is necessary to ensure that the CAPTCHA is valid for a single use and is invalidated after its use.Also, the following con...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration