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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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Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Use credential manager to save the ID to be used tos ave report outputs

Use different credential in windows server to save the report output in the external report share
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Hide Summary option on a by-Summary basis

In Dashboards and Stories, there is currently no way to control which Summaries in Tables and Crosstabs are displayed or hidden. Currently, the option is to either display all or hide all even though all of the summaries generated may not be relev...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Authors to Store more than one version of report / dashboard specification into Content Store.

It should be possible to enumerate and store multiple versions of the same report / dashboard specification into Cognos Analytics content store or external storage. This version should be easily checked and even placed as a layout object to the re...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search email distribution lists for scheduled reports

It would be great if users who scheduled distributed reports could search for email addresses. A recent scenario, we had a student worker who was on a distribution email list, that student left and went to another department. The student still had...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration