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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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  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 filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shyam

We have a scenario to configure clustered secure LDAP to Cognos Analytics.But as per IBM , Cognos product does not support Clustered concept.It only accepts Transparent setup .
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Row High light when a cell is seletcted

when user select a cell and double click or single click in the List report, the selected row in the list report should get high lighted (the complete row that the cell is selected) When a list report with many columns is designed say 20 columns +...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add more data connection servers to connect to data like share point files/list, json and web page tables live etc.

Add more data connection servers to connect to data like share point files/list, json and web page tables live etc.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and space can be utilized

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and valuable space can be utilized.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short

Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration