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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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Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Profile of Cognos Workspace Advanced Custome User Interface

System: Cognos Business IntelligenceActor: Changing profile of custome user interface Description: By changing the profile of the user interface in Cognos Administration. I changed the profile of Cognos Workspace Advanced. When a report widget in ...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos as standard service on Linux

Also applicable for PMR 87056 003 756.Would like to get a good reliable Cognos start / stop / restart / status script for Cognos as a service on Linux that stands in the standards of the Linux daemons: • Start/stop via service interface • Daem...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Active Report with RAVE visualization gauge chart aggregates summary for calculation incorrectly.

IBM Cognos Active Report with RAVE visualization gauge chart aggregates calculation incorrectly.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enh: Appending era name entry of Japanese Imperial calendar

Function request of customer can appending era name entry of Japanese Imperial calendar by themselves. As of now when era name change happens all Japanese customers need to wait and apply fix provided by IBM several weeks after the new era will be...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Dynamic cube deployment import / export

Customer wants dynamic cube deployment import / export feature: They would like to export the dynamic cube from dev and then import in prod like packages. An alternative could be to create an export and then have an option like ""export only dynam...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube - Administrator vs. Data Security

Customer has the requirement to separate Data security from the rest of the security options. E.g. assume the customer has a partner who is performing system administrator tasks but should not be able to see confidential data which is limited to o...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration