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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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Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add log files to a workbench or open in a new window

When viewing a process error log in a workbench, it opens as a pop out and you can't interact with the workbench. Would be nice to have that pop out as a new window or add a tab to the workbench so the log can be interrogated at the same time as t...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Database in Cognos Controller (CCR)? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports for CCR 11.1.1 Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 supp...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Content Server or Data Source? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports. Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 support.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Planned for future release

Support Kerberos Contrained Delegation in TM1 Web

Currently SSO in TM1 Web only supports Kerberos unconstrained Delegation while Microsoft recommends constrained delegation. As a side effect, Credentials Guard automatically enabled in Windows 11 is also not supported. As users migrate to Windows ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release