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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.

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Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

disable email notification during cognos startup

"disable email notification during cognos startup"Currently, there is no proper way to switch off this functionality.I believe that this functionality would not be use friendly if there is no proper way to switch off or change the email recipient.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AI Assistant on the welcome page

To use AI Assistant, the user needs to be inside a data model or data package. However; it would be more efficient if it can be displayed on the welcome screen so the user can use AI Assistant to navigate and browse entire data sets and select one...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Analysis Studio and Query Studio to continue support Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome

Refer to Banking customer in Thailand who has been using Analysis Studio to analyse for 60 deposit mortgage rates for package data that using via browse more than 100 reports to ensure that all important business activities in the bank. Currently ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports file name

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration