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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,

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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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Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Export on Dashboard R7 only available to for author mode

We have a requirement to be able to export data from public facing dashboards. The drill through to report doesn't work because we can't change the default output from HTML to excel or CSV and the default setting on the report isn't used. The R7 e...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for users to deploy Cognos content between environments

Provide functionality that empower users to deploy Cognos Analytics content between environments (Dev, QC, UAT, Prod) without requiring access to copy deployment archive zip files between environments.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Auto size folder panel based on folder path and object name

Make the folder/object panel auto size based on the folder path and object name. Currently the panel can be manually sized but this is something that most applications offer automatically and is expected by our users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration