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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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  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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Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1

Possibility to change label in Dashboard

It should be possible to change the label of the data imported to dashboard. Currently this data property is greyed out and can not be changed.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extended Logging Information for IBM Cognos Administration

Customers would like to be able to directly monitor CPU and Memory Usage of BIBus Processes. It should furthermore be identifiable which user is running the current task and what the tasks resource consumption is. BiBus1 (PID, Assigned to CPU 0, c...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph. Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond. It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Embed Data In Reports Without Special Coding (i.e. Active Reports)

We would like the ability to embed data In reports WITHOUT having to do special/different/extra development. Right now, in order to do this, you need to use a completely different design paradigm (active reports). Then, if you change your mind and...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add start/completion times to My Activities (Past Activities)

Now that the My Activities option has been added back to Cognos Analytics, some additional options would make the tool a little more useful. When viewing My Activities and looking at Past Activities, can the ability to view the start/completion of...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration