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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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  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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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 the possibility to export free form in Controller Web

In the Export Company data which was delivered 2020: BACC-I-243 you cannot in any way export free forms in Controller Web meaning that the reporters can not export all forms thru controller web for documentations purposes which is needed in some c...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Replication Center and Replication Dashboard functionality within DSM

We would like to see the Replication Center tool functionality for IIDR Queue Replication added under the Data Server Manager(DSM) Umbrella. Today we are using Replication Center to administer and monitor our IIDR Queue Replication environment. Th...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Native Stored Procedure debugging for SQLPL

Hello! This is RFE(request for Enhancement) to deploy IBM DSM for our environment. My company Ford requires to add "Native Stored Procedure" debugging for SQLPL, which is required as high priority to support out business. the second requirement...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Dashboard - without Editing the Dashboard, in Properties - show the PACKAGE/ Data Module source.

Presently, I do not see a way of knowing the Package / Data Module a Dashboard uses as it's source without EDIITING the Dashboard. It would be helpful if the full Breadcrumb path to the Package/Data Module is visible from outside of the EDIT optio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

Ability to capture metadata for relationships

Currently the platform does not allow for the capture of customer / use case specific data about relationships. For example when a Risk is associated to a control we would like to be able to store information on its % coverage etc. Its important t...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Move Tabs in the TFUI

It would be useful if users could re-order tabs in the Task Focused UI. This would help with users organising data and makes the application more intuitive by including functionality similar to most browsers
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration