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.

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    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...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 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...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

    An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

    Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

    The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 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.
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

    The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 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...
    4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

    Layout Component References - for everything!

    LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    Allow a report to be updated with an updated XML Spec (Open from clipboard) and saved without losing the report outputs and history

    Sometimes, when promoting report changes from Pre-Prod to Production, it is necessary to bring an XML Report Spec into the environment. Currently, if you bring a report spec in and open it from the clipboard, then save the report, it removes all o...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

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