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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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Ability to set and edit saved parameters on Data Sets

We have a data set that contains prompt parameters to filter the results. We would like to be able to set and edit user saved parameter values without having to edit the data set. Similar to reports and report views, it would be great if we can se...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage connection to Amazon Web Services - Databricks

We have many clients using Databricks on AWS but currently only Azure Databricks is supported in DataStage.
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Add full interactivity to reports as it is in dashboards

Better, more user friendly and consistent user experience across both dashboards and reports.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values.

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values. purpose: Preferable to have a prompt that support selecting multiple values with this format to save space for report content
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Create an overview/summary page for catalogs

Hello! I would like to suggest creating a catalog summary page. Today, when we open a catalog in the Knowledge Catalog, a page with assets opens so that we can filter the assets we want to see. The idea would be to create a new catalog summary pag...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Grid View in Task Focused UI should have same display functionality as in Standard UI

The Standard UI offers the ability to display up to 3 levels of object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the new UI so far are missing this ability. It further would be beneficial, if more than 3 levels could be dis...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Not under consideration

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration