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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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Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Add me to the Alert list" functionality missing in Cognos Analytics

With Cognos 10.2.x Users could subscribe to Alerts occurring in regards to Agents using the "Add me to the Alert list" feature in the More... Dialogue of an Agent. With Cognos Analytics this functionality can only be accessed if Cognos Connection ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Clicks in viz should filter global filter in dashboards

When we click on a viz inside a dashboard it, by default, filters the other widget in the dashboard. It does not filter the data added in the filter pane which is also part of the dashboard.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release