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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Embed CA 11 in SharePoint 2013, 2016

CA 11 supports the "classic" report viewer being embedded in web applications including SharePoint 2013/2016 via URLs, but embedding the new CA 11 portal, interactive reports and dashboards is not documented and fails - specifically in SP 2016/201...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Make Dashboard scaling "Fit To Window"

Make a dashboard fit to window, so that you don't have to scroll down but always see the whole dashboard. A dashboard is not always 100% responsive because it doesn't automatically fit the browser window. Instead there is a vertical scroll bar to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

ReportStudio - same clipboard functionality in all browsers

In ReportStudio it is not possible to copy and paste parts of the report between different sessions. In Microsoft Internet it is possible to copy queries and so on and paste them to another ReportStudio session/ development window.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide 'My Content' in 'Save as' fields

CA11.0.7 on Windows 2012We need the Functionality that 'My Content' will be not visible by the Customer, it should be in Control of one Role/Group. For hiding the 'My Content' Folder in Navigation Bar we have a Solution, but for hiding the 'My Con...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add summarize members function when dragging member elements from the data element tree into report canvas

In legacy power play for windows client it was possible to select a number of members, press the summarize option in the left hand toolbar and drag the selected members to into the crosstab canvas. The result was, that one calculated member got cr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration