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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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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    Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

    Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

    Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

    Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub 1 Future consideration

    Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

    Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

    Switch from non-interactive to interactive report

    A report with V11 abilities to interact with it will not work with this feature when it is a drill through form a report without this functionality.
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

    have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

    Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Search option in Cognos Active report

    There is request from users all the time to provide search feature to find the requested value in long list in the IBM Cognos active report. We built several dashboard for multiple customers with Active report which are utilized in Desktop and Mob...
    about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Add full interactivity to reports as it is in dashboards

    Better, more user friendly and consistent user experience across both dashboards and reports.
    12 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
    12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

    Version control built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality

    Version control should be built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality. Not as a 3-rd party addon. Our users of CA expect version control to be an intregrated part of the tool.
    12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

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