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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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Enhance drill in Maps for a more intuitive workflow

Use case:Currently in a map, if you have the same items represented in the region layer and the points layer for example country and city, and you drill into a specific area based on a navigation path that applies to both layers (ex: Country, City...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Disable "Reset prompts and run" on a report or folder

TS001246554: Need ability to disable "Reset prompts and run" option on all drill-through reports where the parameters are passed from master reports. Re-setting the prompt page on a drill through report does not yield in easily understood prompt c...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Loading Library Visualizations: Please allow us to click more than one per import

From Cognos administration > Library > import. When browsing, we can only import one at a time. shift-click nor ctrl-click are allowed to load more than one visualization at a time.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

"include as link" option when choosing to "send report by email" should be configurable

We currently have our own custom authentication process to log into Cognos which is via SSO. If a user chooses to "include as link" when sending an email, the link will not bring up the report. Because we have our own product which we want the use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration