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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:


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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,

  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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Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduction of 2 x 2 chart with necessary quadrant labels and legend organization, in order to recreate Market Diagnostic Ch

Need CA Dashboarding to support 2x2 charts with required quadrant labels and legend
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos MT support for openid Connect to IBM CIS

Regarding openid connect support ie; https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/administration-openid-connect-is-available-in-cognos-analytics-11-0-7/ We need support for Cognos to support openid connect to IBM's CIS offering.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

right management for data module source searching

When searching for a possible source for the creation of a data module, the results lists displays data modules, packs and data sets.If my profile grants me read rights on a data module but not on the repository where the data module is hosted, th...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

description in tiles view

In cognos connection description for objects (reports etc.) is available in tiles view. Description for folder (or other objects) is NOT available in tiles view. For users it would be much more comfortable to see the description for ALL objects (i...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Add missing geographic boundaries in Belgium in the Map file for the visualisation map

Add geographic boundaries in the Map file for the visualisation map
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration