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,


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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,

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  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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    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

    Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

    In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
    12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

    Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

    The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

    Visualization Button on My Schedules and Subscriptions

    When looking at schedules or past runs, would be good for users if the visualization, filter and refresh buttons were positioned on the left of the page. This would encourage users to use these options more and to know the various filter options a...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Tabs for Open Content in Reporting

    In reporting there is currently a drop down to view what multiple reports, dashboards etc a user has open, this is located in the middle, It would be useful for users to have a tabbed view of what's open and also encourage users to close content t...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Character return within text boxes

    When using the Text box tool, especially when typing a lot of text, you need to add another text box to get a new line, and set the Box Type to Block. Having the ability to create a new line with return would speed up the process significantly.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    LCR selection pane Search box

    The current Layout Component Reference dialogue box requires scrolling through every single option, a search filter would allow for much easier use.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Collapsable/Expandable Filter Panes

    If we could have collapsible panes for the Detail Filters / Summary Filters / Slicer sections within Queries, we could increase the size of the Detail Filters section. Would be even better if you could choose to hide the ones you don't use, within...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Job complete notification dialogue

    When a job/schedule/report completes, a message notification pops up to say so (e.g. 'Report001 run complete and saved'). This would help to alert users that a schedule/job has completed as otherwise there is no form of notification if the job/sch...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

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

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