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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).


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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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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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Editing attachments after check-out (ala SharePoint)

When attaching files to OpenPages we would like the ability to check-out and edit the file and reattach. Currently we can only view the attachment, any edits require the attachment to be deleted, edited separately and reattached. The functionality...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Annotation Support in Cognos Reports

The user wants to create a storyboard from the reports that available for them and be able toannotate (i.e red lining, or draw a circle to highlight something on the chart/report, andadd free form text / comments) and then able to save them. Also,...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Planning Analytics Dynamic Chart Titles

A clear, descriptive chart title helps users efficiently and effectively comprehend what they are viewing. We'd like to see the Chart Title capability elevated from a static string to optionally include dynamic expressions capable of relaying curr...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Make OpenPages reporting Dashboards visible in MS Office Desktop Plugin and exportable to PDF & PowerPoint

The reporting Dashboards aren't visible via the MS Office Desktop Plugin. It would also be valuable to be able to export them to PDF & PowerPoint.
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Export/Download PAW book in Excel format

When we export/download any PAW book, we have options like Image, PDF & PowerPoint. We would like to have another option for Excel.
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Manta : The export of data lineage from Manta Flow Viewer UI for a revision to PNG format needs high resolution.

Problem: Post workflow execution, when you preview a data lineage for a revision in manta flow viewer ui and export the lineage in PNG format. Next, when we try to use the export PNG file for data lineage in a PowerPoint Slide. The image is not cl...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Edit Cognos Charts in PowerPoint

A chart is exported from Cognos to PowerPoint(PPT). It is then sent to the client for review. The client requests font changes (non-data) to the chart. However, to make these changes the developer has to go back to Cognos, make the updates, log th...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Discovery's SDU (powerpoint note column)

Powerpoint slides have a note field below the slide. It contains important texts.I want to get the text of the note field with SDU. When I tested it, I couldn't get the text in the note field. I'd like to get the text in the note field with SDU
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration