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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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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

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

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

KPI visualization in reporting

The KPI widget in dashboarding is a much used visualization. It gives a lot of insight, without using much realestate. However it isn't available in reporting. Having the visualization available in reporting would enhance the reporting experience ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization - legend labels should be localized for any output format

The waterfall visualization is only localized when using HTML output.Other output formats like PDF generates for example legend labes only in English. Neither product nor content language has any impact. Alternative the labels should be customizab...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization localization should be triggered by content language

Actually the Waterfall visualization uses product language to localize information.We noticed that the language chosen for the legend label depends on product language. Furthermore the legend label is hard coded in English when report out is not H...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Adding Job Steps - Favourites Option

When adding a Job Step to a Job, the user currently has the option of selecting from My Content or Team Content. When reports are buried deep down in a hierarchy of folders, this makes them hard to locate. Please add an option to select from Favou...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

roleValue should work with measures for the intrinsic properties

When using a measure set, it is very difficult to get the caption of the current measure in a variable. If you wanted a custom format for specific measures in the set, you have to find a clever workaround instead of just making a data item with ro...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted