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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:


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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,

  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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Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add server name, cube name and view name to title in PAx cube viewer

Add server name, cube name and view name to the title in the PAx cube viewer, similar to what is displayed in the Perspectives cube viewer. As of PAx v32, only the name of the view is displayed in the cube viewer. This can be confusing, if you hav...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Enhance Focus Mode On Dashboard Widgets

When viewing individual widgets on a dashboard you should be able to go into full Focus Mode enlarging that widget to the full size of the screen.Similar to capabilities in Microsoft Power BI.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Action Button Synchronise with cell of view.

We want the ability to click on a cell in a cube view and use the dimension context in an Action Button in PAW. Currently this can be achieved in a Websheet using the Advanced options "Selected DBRW" option, but not in a PAW view/book. An example ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

ability to lock a dashboard or view only mode

Within our company, we have many power users with strong analytical skills that are making dashboards for key managers and decision makers. However, these dashboards cannot be locked and many individuals have changed an analysts work without even ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

export data as text from PAW

Hi there, I believe that there has been another idea that suggests having the Export ASCII data as text in PAX and I have voted on that. If PAX is not possible then what about having this functionality of EXPORT data as text from PAW? This is very...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Export feature to the the view created via Drill through

In order to export a view created via "drill through" process there are 2 steps are required: 1. Add to current sheet 2. Export Technically this works however it's sometimes confusing for a user who works with (or drills from) "maximized/expanded"...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable bulk update in Task Focused UI Grid Views

The Standard UI offers the ability to bulk update object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the Task Focused UI so far are missing this ability.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered