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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).


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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:


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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,


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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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Pins library is not available in reporting

Pin library is needed to use other Cognos tools when prepping the report, for example - how to copy exploration visualization to report?
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make 11.1 visualization available for active reports

Currently in CA 11.1.3 for active report you only have 11.0 visualizations available. Customer requests also 11.1 visualization to be made available for active reports.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing objects path/location in Activities & My Schedules and subscriptions tabs

We are missing information about the object location/path in these two tabs in the properties grid like it used to be in C10 when selection advanced options. It is for Activities tab in Manage and for My Schedules and subscription perspective. Lik...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Pattern to Dashboard Visualizations for Visually Impaired

Similar to traditional reports, it would be valuable to have the ability to add a pattern to to Dashboard visualizations in order to support the visually impaired. The UI used to choose palettes could be used to define a pattern to apply to visual...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Notifications for Views

Users currently use watchlists to be notified when new report output is available. Watchlists are no longer and have been replaced with Notifications. Notifications do not work with Report Views. We did some testing in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 and ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration