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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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Add compatibility with CSS post-processing to custom visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. Many modern UI libraries (such as Material-UI and...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Please implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Copy to" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simultaneousl...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Simplify Management Of Dynamic Cubes

Simplify management of dynamic cubes so that they are easier to set up, administer, and keep running. In particular, make it so that you can publish them with a routing rule, but NOT have to also define them directly on a dispatcher. I'd suggest a...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancing the table or crosstab visiual

When having a table that contains a column that's a parent for others for examples it merge this cell in way making it hard to read, additionally i can't control the column width size. This affects in one of big telecommunication client experience.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

Drill through on Dashboards on direct click on the section of visualization

To achieve the drill through to the Destination by a single click on part of the visuals and not selecting and then going to visualization box and clicking on Drill through Icon.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted