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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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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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Download as Excel and cancel button appear too early

When you run a report as Excel, if interactivity is turn on, the first page of prompts displays at the top of the page a header indicating "Download as Excel" + a CANCEL button. Nothing has been executed yet. This message is displayed too early ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Displaying Time Zone in the Report Scheduler Window

Case ID : TS000068061The timings in the Cognos schedule is default to server time zone. It is getting difficult for the user to schedule timings when there are from different time zone. We are looking for an option where we can set the scheduler w...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log all move copy and delete operations in the Audit database

When multiple MOVE, COPY, or DELETE requests are made at the same time (e.g. multiple reports check marked when a delete request is made), only one of impacted objects is logged in the Audit database. These types of actions against objects (e.g. r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to return the status of the report/job execution run via trigger.bat

Client would like to have the ability in trigger.bat script to execute a report/job via trigger and return the status of the execution of the the report/job so that such implementation can be used to automate the report/job runs using automated to...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration