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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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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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Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Jupyter Notebook

Our team is a data science team and we are using Cognos Analytics to provide analytics to our clients. We do several data quality metrics using Jupyter Notebook and we would like to make it available to our clients in a dynamic mode in Cognos. We ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Would like to see integration of PowerPlay with Cognos Analytics 11 as in older versions.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos REST API - Permission check that only displaying the folders/items the logged in user has permissions to view.

Via de Cognos REST API - The call: api/v1/content/team_folders/itemslogged on as a specific user with a security token, you always see all the folders of present. It is not limited for the folders that the user has access to.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable WCA to read from multiple repos and help in referencing the files across repos

When WCA is able to read multiple repos, it becomes useful for the user to reference multiple files and leverage the different combinations for code generations. For example, I have a linux code base in one repo . My second repo is a test framewor...

Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release