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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


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



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Permit query concurrency in conjunction with master detail relationships

We configured concurrent query execution in development and then set up the RSVP trace to confirm it is working for some reports but not others. In particular it doesn't seem to work for a report which uses a master query for the page set with sev...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show complete path when searching package content in Reporting

Search package content in Reporting only shows the field name. If a field with the same name exists under different paths (e.g. person number) the user cannot decide ad hoc which field to take. Display of the whole path or at least the parent quer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) export to PDF, Excel (Cognos Connection)

We want to run a report with a map to excel, PDF etc. In the attachment you can see what happends when we run a report with a integeomap in PDF (modus).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

setFocus Functionality

In previous versions of Cognos, we were able to use Javascript with the DOM form.document to set screen focus to the first input field. This is a Federal requirement for all aspects of our web site. In Cognos 11, there is no form and no way to set...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Make Dashboard scaling "Fit To Window"

Make a dashboard fit to window, so that you don't have to scroll down but always see the whole dashboard. A dashboard is not always 100% responsive because it doesn't automatically fit the browser window. Instead there is a vertical scroll bar to...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration