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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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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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  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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use microcharts in the dashboard module

in the legacy report module it is possible to add microcharts in lists. This is not possible anymore in the dashboard module, and also not available as a new 11.* visualization. I would like the microchart to be available in the dashboard module a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for OpenID Connect - Identity Server 4

We would like to have support for Identity Server 4 as OpenID Connect identity provider.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable HTTP/2 protocol feature in Cognos Analytics WLP

It should be possible to enable HTTP/2 in the provided WLP for Cognos Analytics - Liberty supports this feature; HTTP/2 supports queries multiplexing, headers compression, priority and more intelligent packet streaming management. This results in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration