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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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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 a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
about 2 years 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

Expand and collapse capability for hierarchical dimensions in cognos lists in report studio

The requirement by client is the tabular data should provide the facility to expand and collapse to see the breakdown of dimension with hierarchy. e.g. If user expands column A that contains hierchical dimension, it should expand to column B and s...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1

We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime() in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or si...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide pinned On Demand Toolbar via URL parameters

When opening reports via hyperlink, I want to be able to display or hide the On Demand Toolbar with a URL parameter. Currently this can only be done from within the Report properties, but I want to be able to toggle it dynamically.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

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.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted