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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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Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto Hiearchy for Date Fields

In Dashboards Datefields are often used for drill down functionality. In the moment you have to define manually for every date-field in a datamodule or directly in the dashboard (if you use a Framework Manager Model) a hiearchy.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos - Simultaneous Login

It was observed that parallel session and authorization check is possible. It was observed that the user can login into the account simultaneously from 2 different browsers.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Create package from TM1 datasource having multiple connection without using FM

We would like to have the option to create a package directly in cognos administration for tm1/cognos planning data source type (without using Framework Manager) when there is several data connections defined for the data source. Today when we are...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Namespace without Gateway

As Cognos Analytics does not require the use of a Gateway it is being requested that the ability to specify the namespace to be used is provided. This functionality exists when using a gateway and specifying the Gateway namespace.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shared Data Source Signons

Due to the heightened levels of security, we are forced to change our credentials to data sources often. In Cognos Connection, we can associate multiple signons to each data source and each signon is defined by a name. It would be helpful if the s...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration