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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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Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support required for a boolean data type.

Support required for a boolean data type.We request that we can use boolean data type columns for filter conditions in 'Workspace Advanced' and 'Report Authoring'. Related APAR#: PI37846
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Template Designer for Dashboards

The built in tabbed/info-graphic templates really help users to quickly drag and drop visualisations into a dashboard without having to worry about moving/resizing objects, but users are restricted to the few that are available. Wouldn't it be gre...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Excel sheet numbering

Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists