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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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Only Drill THrough icons to be visible to users

Users should be able to see only Drill through icon when they run the Dashboard unlike the IT Developers
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make the importing of Agent (Event) schedules consistent with schedules for reports/jobs

In Cognos 10, if you do not select the option to Include Schedules in an Export, the Import would not touch existing schedules. In Cognos 11.x, if you do not select the Include Schedules option in an Export, the Import will DELETE an existing sche...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alcura

Password protect Excel outputs
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Prohibit Concurrent Logins in Business BI (including mobile)

As noted in PMR 81027,442,000, our security function has cited us as having a security issue with the present ability to sign into IBM Cognos BI in multiple sessions at the same time. Per a discussion with IBM security, this is a BI session manage...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiline Labels on Map Visualisations

I would like to be able to display Multi Line Labels on the Map Visualisation. This would allow me to display a customer address over several lines like an address label. I have tried appending the address details separated by Carriage Return, or ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompt Pages does not look same as 10x version

Multi select value prompt is not behaving as expected when there are default values mentioned.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All TM1 cube based reports are throwing "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics error" post upgraded to 11.2.4 FP3

We have upgraded cognos from 11.1.7 FP5 to 11.2.4 FP3. Post upgrade we are getting "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics" error while running the report which is created based on TM1 Cube. Datasource Connection Type : IBM Plannin...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect