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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,


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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,

  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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260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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15 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted
207 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted
144 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration
192 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search functionality to search for all Objects containing a specific field name or table name. (Basically return a Report dependency for Users)

Report developers and users can find all Reports with specific field and table names - perhaps to assist making changes or to review for accuracy, etc.

Transparent handling in hierarchical filters

Hierarchy filter using time as an example: If a quarter is selected first and a month is also selected, the entire quarter is calculated in the dashboard. However, our users would expect only the month selected for the quarter to be calculated. Pl...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted