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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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Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the default width of the navigation tab

It is not possible to change the default width of the navigation bar. We can resize it manually, but the configuration is lost once logged off.+ settings of My content and Team content are independants
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Give to portal pages from C10 same settings as My folder & Public folders

Since CA 11.0.11 you can enable Portal Pages from BI 10.x https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/portal-pages-in-cognos-analytics-r11/But "My portal pages" does not appear in perspective as "My content" and "Team content",...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics on Cloud, provide the ability to build Transformer cubes on the Cloud Servers

Customers looking to move their entire Cognos Analytics footprint to the Cloud. Currently, they must keep Transformer onPrem to build the Powercubes and then sFTP them to the Cloud. The customer I spoke to today, would rather have the builds done ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Page Preview's row per page default setting

Product: Cognos Workspace AdvancedActor: customer needing system setting change Description: our customer is asking for changing the default "rows per page" value when working in Page Preview mode Actually this setting is set to 50rows for a curre...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Palette Colors to Widget Text Items and Objects

Add the ability to apply Palettes to Widget Shapes and Text to increase the number of colors available.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove confusing warning WCZTM5043W about missing copybooks when running a Prepare COBOL

In WCA4Z, running Prepare COBOL always displays the warning message WCZTM5043W COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformation process. Please ensure all required copybooks, inclu...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Ability to convert Views and Tables in Data Modules into the Data Set.

If you have been building a Data Module and notice that Data Sets are required to improve the product performance it is very cumbersome to start building the Data Set using the Data Set editor and then replacing the Tables and Views in Data Module...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration