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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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Ability to disable printing

Our application stores sensitive data. We have architected it with security in mind, are using role based access to restrict data and have included confidential watermarks on COGNOS reports, while also restricting who can export data/reports from ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Data Set refresh though batch job

Data sets are having scheduleing properties to get refresh, However instead of defining individual data set refresh schedule it would be much helpful if we can use cognos jobs to include multiple data sets in a single batch and schedule refresh.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Export files REST API Call for Script Automation

We need export file/package REST API call for script automation but there is no call related to that in this reference cognos REST API doc - https://dhcsdevtestcog.ca.analytics.ibm.com/api/api-docs/#/ Impact in our promotional process automationfr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Planned for future release

Allow ability to download multiple files simultaneously in Drive Explorer

Download link is not available when selecting > 1 file. I saw one other enhancement request on the same topic (Drive Explorer), but is asking for a different solution (file view/open without down loading). That solution request is kbetter. Howe...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Support for custom lines and points on Mapbox maps

Would love to see non-polygon objects like railway tracks, roads, shipping routes on a map and then control the colour and thickness with intensity of use (or something else). Mapbox Studio supports custom point, line and polygon objects. While su...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC Management Console Monitor Role Should be Able to Signon to Datastores

We would like to give the CDC Management Console and the Monitor role to an application support group. Our CDC does data replication from z/OS Db2 to Oracle. The support group would then be able to monitor, among other tasks, table refreshes and t...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide and unhide all comments in a ti code for all sections per one click

Hello, we would like to have the ability to hide / unhide all comments in the complete TI code per one click? For now, you can only comment parts of the code and reverse. With this, you would only see the relevant code lines and don't have to go t...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos Analytics portal authentication via API Key as a URL Parameter instead of the CAMUsername/CAMPassword/CAMNamespace parameters

With OIDC namespaces, the standard URL parameters for authenticating via URL do not work effectively due to redirects and MFA. This makes it challenging to authenticate directly via URL. It would be idea if we could authenticate via an API Key in ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration