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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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Cognos Analytics

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Need a flag to enable or disable Legacy administration console

currently if you are part of administrator role you have access to legacy administration console portal. However most of the features needed are available under Manage from 11.1.5 onwards so we want to hide this legacy console from our users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WEX AC official support to MS2016

Currently, WEXAC is only officially supported up to MS2010. However, the majority of users use MS2016 as their data source. In its current state, you should officially support MS2016, as you will not be able to get support from the developer in ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQA AGG Advisor: Display Picked Options in Advisor Results

In DQA Aggregate Advisor, display selected options in the Advisor Results.After I run the advisor and look at the results, I don't know what was picked as an option.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Hints based upon Role

We need the ability to Hide the Hints, either globally or by user role. Sometimes the hints refer to items that the user will not be authorized to see, thus they do not make sense for the user to see it. Example: a Hint says "this is where you wou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration