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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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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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Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio capabilty to rerun a failed report automatically

We have a daily event that runs a job containing many reports. This event is kicked out by a trigger. There are sporadic instances when the job runs and one report may fail. It would be nice to have a 'task' that could rerun a failed report in a job.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Implement nonconvex quadratic constraints in CPLEX

CPLEX already supports nonconvex quadratic objectives, but not yet constraints, even though they bring a lot of flexibility in modelling.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset. As an administrator I can not clear/empty datasets. I can only delete datasets. Having possibility to clear/empty datasets I could force users to refresh their datasets without ruining the appl...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Format Manager and read only vs rule calculated cell formats

The new format manager functionality introduced in version 101/2/3 is great and allows more flexibility on the formatting of read-only and rule-derived cells. Where a cell is rule-derived and read-only, the new behaviour will now format the cell a...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Audit Log on Questionnaires and Split Comments based on role

Two fold. An audit log on questionnaires to review changed responses and who changed them, as well as prior comments. Second, the ability for different groups to have different comment boxes they can edit.
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Configurable Dashboards (WorkFlow)

Workflow dashboards and corresponding grid views are not configurable
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Planned for future release

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration