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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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Add Missing Report Outout Formats to Fully Interactive Viewer

When viewing a Fully Interactive report, allow the user to run the report in Excel, Excel Data and CSV formats.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Save As report View - Converted Reports Workflow

"Save As ReportView" functionality uses different workflows for Interactive vs Non Interactive reports. This is not intuitive for end users. Target: Report Studio, Admin
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube Designer: Select standard folder for cubes

It would be useful to select a standard folder for the publishing of the cube-packages. The standard folder should be set for every dynamic cube.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date prompts to include period options (Required for scheduling )

It would be grate if date and Date time Prompts would contain Extra options like: Current month Current Year Previous Year This is a big problem for scheduling reports.Yes there are work arounds, However for regular users who create a reports its ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manage Data Source Connection Schemas as limited user

To expose a schema as a data server component for Data Modules, the administrator has to modify the connection and apply the schema. When in that screen, the user could also drop the data source or connection. As an OEM provider that sets up solut...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration