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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,


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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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Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MISSING SEARCH OPTION ON FILTER CONDITION DIALOG

Missing search option on filter condition dialog when creating custom filter for date code and year of year code. This feature was present in previous versions, so please add it.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adapt the name of the export file to the license information

The name of the export file for the used licenses should contain the name of the environment / server. So an assignment is better possible
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Report Template on the Fly

It would be very handy to have the ability to change the selected template for a report during it's development and not have to start over it you need to switch from Freeform to a predetermined layout.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Title property for hyperlink

When using the hyperlink control with Visual Studio there is no property for the html title attribute. Title is enables the html mouseover option. In the current version when have to use an html control or a custom control for such basic functiona...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration