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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web 'Refresh' button (to synchronise changes made in classic client) to be inside other tabs where 'Issues' are flagged (like the 'Reconciliation' tab) instead of only inside tab 'Intercompany'

There is a known limitation with Controller Web (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1167568, plus also case TS004629628) where if you make changes in Controller 'classic' client (for example to fix a reconciliation issue) then Controller W...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Possible to delete datamodul cache

When developing and debugging reports we need to know that we going against the database and not against cache. There should be an option to delete cache for a datamodul. Today I need to restart dispatcher or change datamodul to be able to delete ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Predefined trigger name via drop down list

It is possible to set a trigger name for scheduling reports via external trigger. This trigger name is a text input box and should be configurable for predefined values to ensure correct naming. Until version 11.1.5. with a unsupported customizati...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AMOS for Mac

Hello, I hope you will develop AMOS for Mac version and consider some people who use Mac.
about 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias

Would be very userfull to wite WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias. Very usefull for developers who are using OLAP Functions or other operations on column.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration