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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).


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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Ability to select multiple Queries

You can only select one query at a time to copy/move etc. It would be better to be able to Ctrl+select or select+shift+select to select more than one.
about 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.
about 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.
about 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...
about 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...
about 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...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under consideration

Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

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