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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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.

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    Table Dashboard widget to add text commentary

    Currently slides are used to present numbers and text commentary. A table is used to structure the text commentary. Moving to Cognos Analytics we would like to be able to replicate this text commentary in a table within the Cognos dashboard. Curre...
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

    Allow a report to be updated with an updated XML Spec (Open from clipboard) and saved without losing the report outputs and history

    Sometimes, when promoting report changes from Pre-Prod to Production, it is necessary to bring an XML Report Spec into the environment. Currently, if you bring a report spec in and open it from the clipboard, then save the report, it removes all o...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

    View file attachments in OP UI without downloading. Also view file attachments in Cognos reports

    We would benefit greatly from a built-in file/attachment viewer capability. Something that allows users to view file attachments within the OP UI without having to download them to their workstation. File attachments uploaded in OP are only viewab...
    over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    Ability to cancel user's own threads in IBM Planning Analytics

    Provide a way for users to cancel in process views/threads/tasks they create in IBM Planning Analytics (local or cloud) through any interface. Occasionally users submit transactions or views that take a long time to complete, were submitted in err...
    over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    CA REST API - Add recursion option to groups and roles endpoints

    Currently, when querying for list of groups or roles in CA REST API, the endpoints only return items at the root level of the namespace or the folder defined. If there are subfolders in the namespace or folder, groups/roles in this subfolders are ...
    over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

    Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

    In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

    Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

    Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Homepage Configuration by Role

    We propose allowing the homepage to be configured based on user roles. This would let users see the most relevant information and cards immediately upon logging in, tailored to their responsibilities and needs.
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

    Show Validation Status and Date at Catalog Level

    Currently, descriptions are being validated with functional teams at the Project level. We propose transferring these validations to the catalog level, so that users can see that a description has been validated and since when. This would provide ...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

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