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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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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.

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3rd-party agent authentication/authorization

WxO has no mechanism to keep authentication smoothly with outside agents. It is applicable to both Talent & Finance use cases: Currently on Talent side we have the following issue: We build our agent using LangGraph & Langchain outside W...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Planned for future release

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Ability to hide pinned On Demand Toolbar via URL parameters

When opening reports via hyperlink, I want to be able to display or hide the On Demand Toolbar with a URL parameter. Currently this can only be done from within the Report properties, but I want to be able to toggle it dynamically.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

"No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration

Upon drag and drop a data item, data starts to load and sometimes causes performance issues and errors due to high volume of data. We need a "No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration just like Query Studio. For Query Studio, we have a paramet...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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