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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Cognos Analytics

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    192 VOTE

    Allow users to see status of their report runs

    In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
    132 VOTE

    Restrict user sending reports out to anyone but themselves

    REFERENCE CASE TS003064034, Higher risk applications leveraging Cognos have desires to restrict users to the point that reports or report links cannot be sent out to any other person or group in TO, CC, or Bcc sections, other than themself. Ther...
    almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration
    193 VOTE

    Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

    By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
    almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

    A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

    trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

    trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

    Granular API Key permissions

    API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

    The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted
    145 VOTE

    Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

    Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

    There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

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