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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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Provide Maven Packaging for Java SDK

Provide Maven packaging for Java SDK
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

G Suite integration with Cognos

CAFE or Go Office do not support Google sheets/ Google docs. They are supposed to work only with Microsoft office suite. However, we need to make go office or café work with G-Suite. That was concluded by case TS000281895
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Maintain portal characteristics for embedded report when drilling through

When you embed a report in a third party portal it is expected the experience will remain the same. Drilling through should not expose the appbar and navbar nor should it show any other Cognos portal objects.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses tab: Being able to track Licenses without the users logging in

Hi As per the IBM Support, the Licenses tab can only count the users that Logged in at least once but not the users that have been assigned roles but have yet to Login
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability in Workspace Advanced to filter on level attribute

Hi, Our customer needs to create List reports based on Olap source, and wishes the possibility to filter on Level attributes.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tool tip shows in Package but not in Report and Dashboard

Single installation on Windows for CA 11.1.3 After adding the "Screen Tip" in FM and publishing it to Cognos portal.- Open the package in Report, on left panel it shows but drag the item to Report working area it doesn't show. The issue happens in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to choose HTML vs HTM attachment format when scheduling a job with an image

It would be great to have an option per scheduled job (or at least global advanced setting in CA web portal) to customize how this "smart logic" of HTML vs HTM attachment format works. We understand that logo images are not embedded into HTML file...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration