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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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Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Context Sensitive help missing

When clicking on "Help" in Cognos 10.2.2 you were directed to a context specific help. For example, when viewing the properties of a folder, you were directed to the Administration and Security Guide section "Properties of elements".In Cognos 11 y...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists