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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).


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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:


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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,


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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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Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Shareable Subflows between assistants

Sharing subflows allows assistants to function modularly, essentially exposing the action API to a user building an action.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Ability to categorize or hide custom visualizations

It seems all custom visualizations automatically fall under the bucket 'custom' in the visualization library. We would like the ability to categorize the custom visualizations into existing or new buckets. In our specific use case, we have added v...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Support TM1PRIMARYDBNAME function in PAW when working with the Multiple or More than one Tm1 Databases.

Support TM1PRIMARYDBNAME function in PAW when working with the Multiple or More than one Tm1 Databases. This functions works fine in TM1Web. However, does not work in PAW. Please add support for this function in PAW with the multiple databases...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Drill through from Report to Dashboard

It would be good if we could drill through from a report to a Dashboard. If people from the business are seeing an exception, on a predefined report, that needs further analyses they should be able to pass prompts trough to a dashboard where they ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration