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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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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 References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Model release management for batch and web-service scoring

In CP4D analytics project, there is no model release management framework like SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services (CaDS). We need, 1. LEARNING - Running batch script for model re-training at some intervals(weekly or monthly), and save new ...
about 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Improvements to Relationship Explorer

The current Relationship Explorer default view is messy. It can be improved by: 1. the lines between the nodes can ne customised. lines should also not cross under nodes as it is difficult to trace. 2. have restricted scopes 3. able to perform aut...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release