Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modify subscription options to show/remove or change default

Allow a role (or all roles) going thru > chosing properties > customization > features, that running a report and subscribing to it, allows you to remove the print report delivery option. Also allow to change the default to send report by...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow configuration to modify default subject line.

Allow Congnos Analytics to be able to use the EmailOptions xml to set a default parameters like Cognos 10
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic cube relative date/time

Possibilty to select which of the automatic created relative date periode members that should be included In the dynamic cubes, as it is now. its all or none of the members.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Boomarks

Ability to bookmark a dashboard.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Data lists: Insert Drill-Through

In Cognos Analytics there are the new data lists for reporting, which are quite useful. Unfortunately you can not insert a drill-through (like in a normal list object) to other report. That would be quite useful.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A visual indicator on reports for fields with filters.

Users would benefit from having a visual indicator on the header column title that makes it easier for users to select a filter to use on that column.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release