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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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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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  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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Unable to edit Combined Filter from show filter option available in the Cognos 11.0.10 viewer

Not able to edit the Combined fitlers when we run the report from the Cognos 11.0.10 Viewer even though we specify the option 'Can be Changed in the Viewer' for the combined filter.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Event Agent

Ability to select multiple steps when adding a task in one go. For example, if I have 10 agents and I want to run them from a parent agent I can multi select them from the same folder they are in, instead of selecting them one by one. The result s...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Point(dot) chart, dots are overlapping, its not good for visualization

Cognos Analytics Dashboard: We cannot set the opacity on the chart, only the whole chart it self. The dots are overlapping each other, thus not every mark is visible on the chart. Allow to change the opacity of the dots on the chart.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Future consideration

Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the default setting when sending mails

With the options for the delivery of the reports (after "Execution in the background") set as default that the report is sent as an attachment by email and is not saved.I click on "Delivery" option (new GUI). The following should then be activated...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration