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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


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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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Add option to create report view from report shortcut for users

Add the same option for users as in Cognos BI 10.2.2. to create report views from report shortcuts in the Cognos analytics portal.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Setting for rows to buffer in Planning Analytics Workspace

When editing dimensions or browsing data via Planning Analytics Workspace, the grid continously loads to rows when scrolling down. This creates a very poor user experience and the idea is to make it possible to control the amount of rows/cells tha...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration

Add the ability to customize(or at least expand) the fields viewed in Cognos Administration for Scheduled reports, Past Activities, Current Activities
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimensiona...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View package properties like datasources, my permissions, contents etc.

We should be able to see all the properties/options associated with a package, like, the package datasources, my capabilities, my permissions, package configuration options (modify/remove the package configuration), package contents, etc., like we...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans - Hover Text Configuration

Allow hover text to be customizable for objects within PAW. For example, If I hover my curser over an action button I want to specify that a hover text box shows up and describes what the button is going to do. This should be configurable in the a...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SetUseActiveSandboxProperty should persist for Process and any child processes

Just like the way Temporary views and subsets now works where the objects persist until the end of the process chain/transaction, setting SetUseActiveSandboxProperty(1) in the parent should keep this enabled through all child processes. When runni...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable the Report tab in OpenPages Dashboard (TFUI) to render Active Reports

Active reports are interactive, quick filtering, attractive in look and feel and animations. As of now when we add active report in dashboard tab, it does not run in the same tab , but it opens up in a completely new window, instead running in the...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Find more drill-through links dialog cannot be resized

To preview passed values for Drill Through the corresponding dialog is opened:- right click on drill through element- select Related links- open Find more drill-through linksIn the Related links dialog expand Advanced. Here you see the details for...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration