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).


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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,

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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.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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    Need better warning text when deleting folders

    Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

    It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

    Data format in Datamodules

    I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

    There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Client side rendering of interactive reporting

    Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

    Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
    about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Increase data audited in regards to emailing to be able to answer IBM License Audit truthfully

    Audit information needs to be able to provide the number of report recipients. This is part of IBM Licensing Audits. Currently customers can only data-mine Mailserver Logs, if that information is included.Or buy inconclusive Admin Software like Mo...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Close report set as homepage

    When setting a report as the home page, we want the option at any time during the session to close that report and then return to the default home page.
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

    Add/Pin user specific Folder(s) to left navigation bar

    Majority of our users are using more than one solution and therefore need access to more than one folder structure constantly. Current possibility to add user role specific folders limits having only one pinned folder. Giving user functionality to...
    about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Quick Reference Customization

    Being able to use the Quick Reference a adjust the contents and links underneath after designing my own extension and theme.
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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