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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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  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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Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Chrome samesite HTTPS cookie preservation

Google Chrome 84 version has deployed new samesite cookie restrictions. The only workaround is to have the end-user modify their chrome cookies to 'disable' samesite. Cognos is integrated within our own web-based product using an iframe. We have c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.10 Custom Group Issue

when a report is created using a model level filter with a dimension and measure column, all the values present in dimension column are not getting displayed when a custom group is defined on that dimension column, instead only few values are disp...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a feature to disable the "clean-up" the metadata presentation when loading data of Data server connection

Context : Using imported Teradata views to create data moduleAfter importing the views and display them in a new data module we notice that the name are different from the Teradata Data sourceall the "underscore" character are removed
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted