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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports

Need to be able to add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports to properly calculate so a viable offline solution can be provided that is in line with Standard Reports. Right now without the ability to do post-aggregation the % value on the viz chart i...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Not under consideration

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes: MultiSelect Measures and change at once the Format for all measures selected.

in the Cube Designer UI : having the capabiliy to select multiple measures at the same time (multi-select with CTRL+Click for example) and change the FORMAT for all measure selected at the same time ( like the feature we have in Framework manager ).
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Digitally signing email

Provide the capability to digitally sign email sent from the IBM Cognos Analytics environment. Digitally signed email assures the recipient of the email's origin and legitimacy. this is especially important when sending email that contains attachm...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration