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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,

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  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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Request designed as POST is accepted as GET:

The application will accept and process a request sent as a GET, even though it is designed to be used as a POST. A GET request exposes any included parameters in browser history, printed pages, and server logs. A POST prevents those exposures. En...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos job trigger using Apache Airflow

we would like to have functionality, to trigger cognos jobs using apache airflow.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Font size in Summary control cannot be changed

Given that we can adjust the size of the label, the font of measure under the label is not adjustable. By dragging the corner, the size of label remains the same but the measure only changing not proportionally with the label
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customer to implement skinning and corporate fonts according to coporate styleguide

Customer has own fontset since 1990 and is more then interested to use the fonts in the internet facing reporting solutions. Customer has own coporate styleguide with own icons, symbols, colors, spaceing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Restrict Exploration from specific Packages

Provide the ability to restrict access to specific packages with the Exploration tool, as allowed with with tools, such as Report Studio. Not all packages may be designed for optimal use with Exploration. The users may need access to one package f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists