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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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Bulk renaming of query items in Business view in Framework Manager

We have Source view, Business view and DMR view. No shortcuts are used in Busines view and only English language is used in Framework Manager. We want to rename query items in Busines view in bulk so that source names would be renamed to business ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office.

We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos For MS Office. When users refresh reports from Cognos for MS Office, it is not logged into Audit tables. We want to be able to identify the requests from Cognos for MS Office and Cognos Conne...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics New Report - Default Behaviour like Analysis Studio (Cubes)

We have many business users transitioning from Analysis Studio and would like the product defaults for "Report" to be similar to that tool, especially for dimensional data sources. Currently we have to manually set:- View settings -> check “Sho...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...

Add nesting/grouping x-axis values for Visualizations like Legacy charts

Nesting/grouping x-axis values option is available in Legacy charts. It would be very helpful to have the same functionality for visualizations.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Dynamic Cube Administration Security Seperation

Separate Dynamic Cube Administration capabilities from System Admin....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

retrieve the list of email recipients that were distributed by one of the job burst's reports.

Currently, retrieving the list of email recipients for each report within a job from the audit database is not feasible. Therefore, we are seeking a modification to the audit database in order to enable this retrieval.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration