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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Alter Uploaded Files

When uploading excel sheets to use, display, and manipulate for the purpose of storyboarding or dashboarding, there is no feature to change or view the attribute types once uploaded. In order to accomplish this task, you must re-upload and re-link...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factoryMode=True

How to default the COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factory Mode=True
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration