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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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Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Background Image Sourcing

Standard layout images can be sourced from a URL that is either text or the result of a report expression. The report expression option provides quite a bit of functionality in terms of being able to show different images based on simple or comple...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Possibility to manually edit shortcut url-path

If a report or dashboard change name we need to create a new shortcut. We would like to have the possibility to easily edit the shortcut url-path.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Dynamic User Recipients in Event Studio

User reports can sometimes fail on the server when run in background. Cognos does not alert users when this happens (except for send failures which is post execution). I have created an event/agent which runs against the Audit package every 15 min...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key Set up [Enter]-key to be linked to the Finis/Run button to apply adjusted filter conditions without having to click on the button. Purpose: Better user experience, eliminate unneccesary scrolling.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values.

Update "drop down list" value prompt to support functionality to select multiple values. purpose: Preferable to have a prompt that support selecting multiple values with this format to save space for report content
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

My parameters behavior don't have expected behavior

When you're report use the "My parameters" functionnality and save as report view (by using the "save as report view" button), the value of the selection of the "My parameters" is stored in the report view details. When the values has been stored ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration