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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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TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.domain...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to word wrap long text values in Dashboard visualizations

On Dashboard visualizations, when the data items, containing long strings of text, are added to visualizations, the text values are cut off. Customers need to ability to enable word wrap.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

Option to sort 'my parameters'

Add custom sort option for global parameters under the 'My parameters' section in the application bar. We want to expose specific parameters to users using this functionality but it is not possible to control the order of this parameters (how they...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Cancel a Page Preview query in progress

When working in report studio, in the upper right, the author has a choice of working in three different page modes: page design, page preview and page structure. When in page preview mode, sometimes after making an edit, the query can take a long...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Change font size and color for value labels in dashboards

There is no ability to change the size and color of the font for value labels in dashboards. The font is fairly small and does not change with resizing.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Functionality already exists

Wrong output format in Audit Table

Customer is asking for a more accurate audit logging in the area of output format. Due to a bug the only format being logged is XHTML also a ad-hoc report is executed in an different format.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Recent Reports on Content Page

In Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 the content homepage (?perspective=content) has some tabbed folder by default: My content, Team content, Custom folder and My portal pages. So this is the perfect starting point for our consumers. It would be very helpfu...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration