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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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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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Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Developers need the ability to interact with the LLM

Today the prompting and communication with the LLM is done for the transformation service using the ADDI meta data. Doing this, provides a very opinionated class hierarchy and code generation. This works will for customers with limited skills. But...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create view in PAW

I will be shown a view on TM1 "Architect or Perspectives" also when I create a view directly in PAW. (If I create a view in PAW, it will not be shown in TM1)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy or move books

I want to select some books and copy or move them together once. (now I can copy or move books one by one) In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer so...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Content store consistency checker to clean groups

The content store consistency checker properly identifies users and groups in the content store that no longer exist in Active Directory. During cleanup, it will delete orphaned users in content store, but not groups. Please do groups too. Painful...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration