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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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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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German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Jupyter Notebook Integration: online library visualizations (like plotly) not available in Reports and Dashboards

All users of Jupyter Notebook integration in CA will benefit for enhanced visualization and data science functions provided by R. online libraries like plotly.js are working in Jupyter Notebooks itself but not working/not displayed when used in Da...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Track filters on Cognos Usage Reports

It would be useful to track down on Cognos Usage Reports which filters were selected on the dashboard, alongside the date and the user who selected the filters. This would be excellent for a usage analytics scenario.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted