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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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Set Editor Drill to Leaves on Selected Side Or Right click

In predecessor to Planning Analytics for Excel (CAFE), you could "Insert Member with Inputs" from the selected side of the set editor. In PAX, you can do this from the available side but requires you to sift through members first. Cube Viewer does...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an Option to not use sql alias in column_name

We have many jobs and projects reading an Oracle database table and use alias to map the column name in table into a new name (for new name in target table, or join with another data sets). When viewing in IGC the data lineage, there is a break (s...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration

SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ACM support for Unit Of Measure

We at Parker Hannifin Corporation working on integration of IBM MDMCS (Version 11.6) with WCS (Version 8.X) using OOTB ACM accelerator. At commerce (WCS) end there is a field named Unit of Measurement at value level which can be associated in each...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Split Labels and (Surrogate) keys in Data Modules

In Framework Manager it is currently possible to split Labels and Keys. Meaning, an end user will see the label of a field (eg. The Netherlands) and in the backend, Cognos will filter on the attached key (eg. 12345). The advantage of this is that,...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the OpenPages platform to have documents associated with GRC process stored in an external platform to avoid duplication and point file storage solutions

Core to this idea is that the workflow, business process and data capture is mastered in OpenPages, but the associated documentation is stored in an enterprise content management solution (example IBM's Enterprise Content Management). This could b...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Require UI-based method for bulk data enrichment at scale

Review all columns at once for business terms and data classes instead of going column by column: - When MDE completed, customer wanted to update terms and data classes as simple as editing in excel. Currently you have to click for term assignment...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration