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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:


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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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  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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Option to disable merging CSS classes on report elements

While merging CSS styles makes sense, there are many times where having distinct class names on the elements allows for more advanced reports. For example, I could have a class that has no styles, but use that as a reference point for JavaScript c...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Possible for an extensions to just open children folder

When using extension to add a folder to sidebar it only shown all folder structure. I would like to only show children of the selected folder
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Bar Chart - allow the user to toggle Measure values between VALUE and Percentage of Color

Assume you have a Dashboard widget which shows a breakdown by Gender. If the requirement is to show values and also Values as a % - we have to create two separate Widgets. The user does have the option to change VISUALIZATION... but it would welc...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Implement SSO with AD using SAML 2 for Cognos 10.2.2

We are migrating to Cognos BI 10.2.2 and we need to implement SSO with AD using SAML 2. Will it be possible in the next version of Cognos BI ?
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Edit Font Size of Data Labels in a Dashboard

Currently the data labels in a dashboard default to a font size which can be very small and hard for users to read. It would be very helpful to have the ability to change the font size of the data labels in addition to being able to toggle them of...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release