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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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review

Chinese UI translation

Product UI need Chinese UI [other related aspects originally included tracked in separate ideas for appropriate scoping & prioritization: 1. Generative AI feature need support Chinese ==> https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Future consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

bring back slice to excel in planning analytics workspace

previously in tm1web, it was possible to prepare a cube view by slicing and dicing to the right filters and dimensions, and hit slice to excel to create an excel file with excel formulas to link to the cube data. in paworkspace, it is no longer po...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cascading Delete Enhancement

Currently it is not possible to have different scenarios for the cascading delete functionality. Objects can be excluded from the cascading delete entirely or not. There is no way to decide whether to delete an object depending on different use ca...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node needed.

want to use Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node. pySpark has a quite big overhead. SparkDataFrame is not popular than pandas dataframe.
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration