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:


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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    Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

    Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

    I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

    New Cognos Role (License) which restricts Business Authors to a limited features in REPORTS Module

    System: Cognos Analytics REPORTS moduleActor: Restrictions to specific features of REPORTS Module to Business Authors. With migration of Cognos 10.x to Cognos 11.x, a big leap is seen in the moving away from Workspace Advanced, which for many Busi...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Add summarize members function when dragging member elements from the data element tree into report canvas

    In legacy power play for windows client it was possible to select a number of members, press the summarize option in the left hand toolbar and drag the selected members to into the crosstab canvas. The result was, that one calculated member got cr...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

    Allow for a deployment export object to maintain a specific history (ie, 4+current) of deployment archives, or unlimited versions, as part of the definition.

    Supplementary to CA-I-4375, it would be ideal if the deployment export definition allowed for the deployment archives to be maintained by the product (ie, maintaining 4 historic archives, plus current, removing the last archive on next successful ...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    User-friendly preview mode

    Preview mode should use the initially set prompt parameters.See document in attachment.
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to retain pie chart size intact when show values is enabled

    It would be nice if pie charts didn't randomly change their size when show values is enabled.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Archive file location active checking and failover

    We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

    Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    For entries in My Content, from the More button, hide the Share option

    Users can't share content in their My Content location, so if they use the Share option, the recipient will receive an error when they try to use the link. It would be a better user experience if the option didn't appear at all for entries in the ...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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