Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

Showing 4078 of 18732

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to tell which roles and/or groups an individual user is in.

When a new user joins the organization, typically we'll get a request that says "give the new user the same rights as user x". In the past, when we had Cognos on prem, I had SQL statements I could run against the content store that would allow me ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Elimination of Dropdown list

Client environment uses LDAP for Active Directory, since the Client Active Directory domain has several domains (BDS, and CDS) when two namespaces have to be created in order to recognize users in each domain(BDS or CDS). This is an SSO environmen...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translate Chart Title in Dashboard

Ability to translate a chart title. We want to be able to add it to the things that get translated in the dashboard translation tool
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Default output format in reporting

Please use the same mechanics as in Cognos 10 where you had the same output format every time you clicked on the play button. Now you have to chose every report execution which output format you want to see.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) and Cognos Analytics 11.0.5

The possibility to have SSO through IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 and IBM Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) Please, refer to PMR 89455,211,788.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Enable communication via proxy

Mr. Ronald Srnka from IBM and I are currently trying to implement Single-Sign-On for our IBM Cognos TM1 (Planning Analytics) at Bilfinger SE. However, while installing Cognos Analytics, we are facing the problem that the Cognos Analytics Service i...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration