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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,


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



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Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search functionality to search for all Objects containing a specific field name or table name. (Basically return a Report dependency for Users)

Report developers and users can find all Reports with specific field and table names - perhaps to assist making changes or to review for accuracy, etc.

Transparent handling in hierarchical filters

Hierarchy filter using time as an example: If a quarter is selected first and a month is also selected, the entire quarter is calculated in the dashboard. However, our users would expect only the month selected for the quarter to be calculated. Pl...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Publish Impact Analysis for Dashbaords in Framework Manager and Data Modules

It would be great if the ability to recognize changes in the FM model or Data Modules via Analyze Publish Impact would also work for dashboards
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Introduction of a permanently visible drill-through button, possibly as a widget

The lack of visibility means that our users do not take full advantage of the flexibility of their dashboards. The drill-through option is often only used once users have attended training.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Advanced filter creation options

In addition to the option of creating a calculation, it would be very helpful to have the option (similar to ReportStudio) of using Boolean expressions for filter creation. For example, you could then simply create a filter that outputs the last 1...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Define centrally adjustable dashboard templates

This would greatly support the implementation of the corporate design (font sizes, number formats, etc.) and the standardized dashboard display.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Unchangeable filter

A filter that can be implemented in the global area of the filter bar or in the tab area in such a way that it cannot be changed, meaning that a user cannot remove it
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Information Button with mouseover text

Such a button —or simply the option of a mouseover for various dashboard objects—would be very helpful in explaining certain elements of a dashboard in more detail.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release