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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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  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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Copy users files from Team Content to the users My Content folder

We would like to to be able to copy files from Team Content to a users My Content folder, this was available in Cognos 10. The only option now is to copy from team content to another folder in team content or my own my content folder. Reference ca...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Filters of queries created in Query Studio that are migrated under Report

We are migrating our users from Query studio C10.2.1 to report C11 R11 Filters of Query Studio are migrated under Report as "filterExpression", That could be improved for users because filterExpression do not appear dynamically in the filter.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Output embedded reports as part of PDF outputs in Dashboards

The Use case revolves around dashboards that have complex embedded reports as part of the dashboard output. When exporting to PDF, currently, embedded widgets are not shown in the PDF output. This hinders the ability to consolidate and share insig...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization of line thickness on 11.1 visuals

I had ticket open with support to verify that this currently doesn't exist but it would be nice to be able to make the lines on 11.1 Line charts in reports thicker. The default is too thin for some users and there is no way to customize this prope...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date Prompts should be empty as default

the date prompts have as default value the current date.The problem ist, that when the date prompt is an optional prompt, than the user must always clear the date prompt, otherwise the value (current date) whould be used as filter.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mobile Friendly Responsive UI in Cognos when viewing from mobile devices not just dashboard

When accessing Cognos from Android browser, UI need to be responsive and mobile friendly option/menu to have fluid experience
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration