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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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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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Ability to Set Default Option for Select and Search Prompt

Would like a property for Select and Search prompts that allows setting / modifying the default option.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the capability to connect to Azure KeyVault and get private keys for snowflake authentication

This request is from Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd. (Formally JDA SOFTWARE GROUP_INC) As Snowflake is officially deprecating username and password authentication (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-mfa-rollout#deprecation-timeline) , we have ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email – CUG2026

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Expand/Collapse in dashboard

You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Button to move between Tabs

while working with the Dashboard with more than 4 to 5 tabs. Movement of one Tab to another Tab is easier. This same feature is available in Planning Analytics workspace if you wanted to check
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration