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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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Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Log the Source Client IP Address in the system logs / audit logs

As per our security requirements, we need to see the IP Address of the machine from where the user has accessed the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web console. In the current system, we don't see any evidence for the same. I have worked with the support t...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Delivered

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Annotating data using Watson Studio using Watson Knowledge Studio with Figure Eight or DefinedCrowd

Crowd Sourcing data annotation for Text-based documents using the combined power fo Watson Knowledge Studio and Crowd sourced annotation platforms like figure figure eight or definedcrowd. Watson Knowledge Studio offers the capability to assign an...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Delivered

Using ECDSA root for RSA certificaten

To secure Cognos analytics internally, an internal RSA certificate has been created. The root of our internal certificates are all ECDSA. We can not change this, because then all our certificates no longer work. It would be good if Cognos Analytic...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered