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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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    Report Authoring is not Accessibility Compatible

    Issue: We are unable to add data items to a report page without using the mouse. In some tests we are unable to navigate to the Insert-able Objects menus using the keyboard at all. In other instances, user was able to get to the insert-able object...
    2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    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...
    13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Enable selecting members from another namespace inside Role or Group like it is in Admin console

    When you have 2 namespaces and you are logged into just one and you want to remove some users from role, in Manage you cannot select them. This works in Admin console and speeds up the process. When some namespace becomes obsolete you can clean gr...
    2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Enabling Concurrent Query Execution for Master-Detail Relationships in Reports

    Concurrent query execution for reports containing multiple layout components (e.g., lists, crosstabs) generally works well when properly configured. However, there are specific scenarios where concurrent query execution is not possible. One notabl...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Configurable Query Retry Mechanism for Enhanced Query Reliability

    Our backend utilizes Trino on S3, and we occasionally encounter intermittent error messages, particularly when a single Cognos report generates multiple queries against the same data source. This issue is more prevalent in scenarios involving mast...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Allow multiple File System Root Locations to save scheduled report outputs

    Supporting multiple Archive Location File System Roots for saving scheduled report outputs would allow Cognos to store reports across different storage servers for capacity planning, departmental separation, or migration scenarios. This would bene...
    5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted
    699 VOTE

    More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

    We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

    Accessibility

    According to the Accessibility Conformance Report currently only the Content Navigation (including Manage options), and report output, are ‘supported’ when it comes to accessibility. This means navigating in any of the Studios and Cognos Administr...
    6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted
    608 VOTE

    Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

    It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
    538 VOTE

    Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

    Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

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