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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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Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Enabling the use of hidden columns

This would enable sorting according to a different criterion than the one displayed. Example: The product is displayed, but it should be sorted according to the product key. In addition, these values could be used in the drill-through to the repor...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Local separator is not maintained in dashboard Export to CSV when French Language is set for Product and Content Language

Cognos Analytics 12.1.1 provides option to Export to CSV in dashboard (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-option-users-export-visualization-data-csv-file). However, when Product and Content Language is set to Fren...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Ability to categorize or hide custom visualizations

It seems all custom visualizations automatically fall under the bucket 'custom' in the visualization library. We would like the ability to categorize the custom visualizations into existing or new buckets. In our specific use case, we have added v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Unchangeable filter

A filter that can be implemented in the global area of the filter bar or in the tab area in such a way that it cannot be changed, meaning that a user cannot remove it
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Sorting Stack Bar Chart X-axis on Measure Value In Dashboard

This would allow the x-axis value of a stacked bar chart (and others) to be sorted on a measure value that is a part of the data module or a calculation that does not appear in the visualization. In the attached screen shot, there are 3 length mea...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted