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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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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.

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Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Drill down with navigation path

Navigations Paths cannot be used like real "drill down" in report studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Blockchain integration as a data source

Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under 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...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Features

1. Can the Dashboard report be scheduled? To be emailed to Inbox 2. Can a dashboard report output be exported/scheduled to run in Excel? So that it can be attached to email delivery method
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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

Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration