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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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Data module: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Connectivity to MongoDB Atlas SQL using JDBC

We are testing connectivity between CA and Atlas SQL Interface (MongoDB Cloud DB) using the JDBC Connection by passing all the required parameters as per the guidelines and the test data source connection ends with an error message - (not certifie...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Planned for future release

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard,Waterfall graph:How to move X-axis item names.

The X-axis item names are displayed at the bottom. When many items are lined up on the X-axis, the problem is that the user's line of sight moves significantly. I would like to add a function to move the item name on the X-axis.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

formatted ReportPath() fonction in Dashboard and Report Studio

Obtain a readable path of a Report or Dashboard, for example Public Folder > path1 > path2 > path3 etc... instead of the historic bad /content/folder[@name='path1']/folder[@name='path2']/folder[@name='path3']/folder[@name=etc...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to provide a tenant specific deployment-folder

As an tenant administrator I would like to export or import content from Cognos analytics. You can assign a export/import-definition to a specific tenant. The ZIP-files with content will end up in the deployment folder. There is just one deploymen...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to connect to IDV ( Informatica Data Vault ) as a Data Source for Reporting Purpose

We have critical data stored in Informatica Data Vault (IDV )and this data is accessed via 200+ Cognos reports across different areas in the company. In the version Cognos 10.2.2, we used the Microsoft ODBC driver ( Nucleus ) to connect to this da...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maintain the 'Sent From' user when a schedule is changed

When adding recipients to a distribution the original scheduler is updated to whoever updated the distribution.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Burst Options for Data module based reports inside a job

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almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration