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

All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Cognos Analytics on Cloud Integration with ServiceNow

Integrate Cognos Analytics on Cloud with ServiceNow to query ServiceNow data in Cognos.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Functionality already exists

Own color palette for each KPI in diagrams

The customer wants a diagram in his report, where KPIS for different departments are shown. For each KPI the actual value is used with the target value in the same diagram. The actual value should use the normal color palette with all company colo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default the delivery method to Excel/pdf at the report run time

I was looking for something like when user runs the report, if there is huge data set, Cognos suggest to select Delivery Method on the dialog box. When users select email option, it always sends HTML copy as there is no place to define Report Outp...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Appending Month Name or Fiscal Period to the PDF Report Output

The requirement is whenever we schedule a report can we get the current month/ fiscal period appended with the report name once we get the output in View history ex :- ABC_DEC2017 or ABC_DEC_FY-17 where ABC is the name of the file? I need this DEC...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Hide Summaries property for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards

In a lot of real cases we want to display some attributes but need an overall summary for the key figures. Between version 10.0.10 and 11.1.1 the property "hide summaries" has been introduced for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards. It allows to sw...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration