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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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SQL Views

Information Analyzer provided functionality for so-called SQL Virtual Tables that allowed users to select and join data from different tables on a data source and reuse this view for further analysis and reporting. The customer created thousands o...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Apply Date numeric data formatting in framework model in dashboards

See case TS000115108 Improved control of numeric data formatting in dashboards A framework model with informix database and date column formatted to the format dd/MM/yyyy not being honored in dashboards. It appears like 01-01-1900 According to the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

duplicate existing role or user group

To be able to clone users, user groups, and roles to make user set up and assignment a lot easier. We're currently setting up several sub-categories as data domains. Each one will have a different user group as approvers for workflow purposes. To ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Sort Column on Packages in Data Modules (Month Name)

Currently relational Framework packages are not able to sort Month Name by date. This creates dashboarding problems for users trying to do ad-hoc analysis on governed data.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to rename data modules and update links

We would like the ability to rename data modules in CA. We have the ability to swap out the modules, but cannot edit the name.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Writing back the data quality results to an external database i.e. SQL server

We have a couple of users who have requested for us to connect to their in-country reservoir instances (SQL servers), as they would like to write back their data quality and profiling results in there. This will give them more control of their res...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists