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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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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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Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration
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Setting the default landing page for all users in Cognos Analytics Portal

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We are an Organization with around 400+ users in Cognos.As many of these users are business users and are mostly non technical users, we would like to reduce the time needed to train them as we upgrade from Cognos analytics 11.1R3 to CA11.2.We hav...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Include unsubscribe Link in watch item mails to allow convenient removal of subscriptions.

Overview This proposal outlines an enhancement to IBM Cognos that would allow users to unsubscribe from watch item notifications directly within the email, eliminating the need to manually navigate the Cognos interface. This feature would improve ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance Event Studio to support emailing multiple report outputs for same recipient separately

Our requirement is to email a bursted report to business users and to have the subject line indicate the policy# and a few other pieces of information. Once the report is bursted, one ore more report outputs will be created for the same recipient....
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2

Enhance Auditing capabilities to include changes in access permissions

The current Audit logging does not include changes to access permissions on Cognos objects. We would like changes to access permission on Cognos objects to be included in the Audit logging. The information should include who (what user) changed wh...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration