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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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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    Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

    In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

    Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
    almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

    Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

    Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

    This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Graphs and visualizations, trends, automatically display zero point data

    When trending data (for example sales or counts per month) with a line graph, CA omits months from the trend graph that do not have sales or counts. This does not represent the trend correctly since it is important that there were no sales or coun...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

    Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

    Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

    We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Watch Rules: Ability to copy a watch rule

    go to "My Watch Rules" > Rules tab. Look at the tool bar, there is cut and paste, but not copy.
    almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

    When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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