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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Full support for all Canada Postal Codes (6 digits) in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps

Current support for Canadian Postal Codes in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps is limited to the first 3 digits of the postal code. To satisfy reporting requirements, we are needing the ability to map the geographic areas for all Canadian Postal Codes with...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Integration of Dynamic Cubes to CloudPaks

we use very often dynamic cubes as OLAP modelling engine. Our transformer cubes models are dynamic cubes, now. We want to migrate to cloud services, but as far as i know, dynamic cubes aren't supported here. Is there a way to enable / embed dynam...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Not under consideration

Do not break shortcuts when renaming a folder name

The objects are indexed using their search paths, so if the search path breaks when a folder or object in the path changes, then the shortcut link will break.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delay

Issue: Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delayDescription:We are using trigger utility to trigger the import and export deployment jobs. We noticed that i) cogserver.log is not populated the complete import...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Load Balancing

Load Balancing and High availability in Cognos Analytics.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for Cognos licence when emailing content to users with no Cognos access

When we schedule a report like other BI products we would like the ability to deliver content straight into users/customers inboxes without the requirement for them to hold as a minimum an Information Distribution licence. We accept that those com...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration