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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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Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Report Viewer filter Interactive mode form DMR reports

Cognos R13 Report Viewer filter (Interactive mode )Filter option is (+ symbol) is not enable to enter specific value for DMR reports and it's show for relation reports.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to disable "all at once" execution mode for jobs

Hello, we would like to have option to disable execution mode ALL AT ONCE for jobs per user roles and also being able to switch the default as by using this execution mode for large job (lot of reports inside the job) one user can potentially take...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support to Jethro datasource over JDBC

Cognos Platform: Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 on Linux We are planning on using Jethro(https://jethro.io/) as an acceleration layer on top of our data lake built on Hadoop with Cognos Analytics as the front end. Jethro offers connectivity to ext...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize default selection color in Active reports

Color customization for the container select and mouse hovering needs to be incorporated into report studio.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration