Skip to Main Content
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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

Showing 4078 of 18732

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get notification (toaster) when Dataset and/or Job has finished loading (even if started as part of a job)

If user subscribes to the notification the toaster is notifying "Dataset loaded" and or "Job xxx finished" it sticks until closed by user. Really the feedback for a job finished successfully is lousy and the timestamp for datasets is not always in...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI integration using LDAP group authorization takes 20 seconds to login into Cognos BI

Logon into Cognos BI takes 20 seconds when LDAP groups are used for authorizations. Please provide sub-group starting point for searching LDAP groups.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

PMR 51742,442,000- Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.

1. Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.2. Refreshing list with less data leaves empty row and column cells3. Refreshing list with more data does not get published
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk modification of properties of report and objects

hello, I often find myself having to edit the properties of reports and have to open them one by one. So I was thinking as an improvement to the options on the portal (also to be added as an option on the folder that contains the objects ) that it...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration