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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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Hide or show application sections based on PAW security group

Currently, all users with access to a PAW application see all sections and assets within the navigation pane regardless of whether they have access. Access to a section is based on an assigned "contributor" group. Users not in a group assigned as ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show item labels for tree map visualization.

To create consistency between visualization chart properties it would make sense to include the same options in a tree map (similar to a pie/bar chart properties) i.e. to include the ability to toggle on and off show value labels. In addition, it ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Context filter and set display for exiting reports

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over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Stage v11.5 - View Data

Please be advice that I am not always on bank site therefore sometimes it will take me few days to reply your emails. we have migrate our data stage from version 8.5 to 11.5. due to the reason that 11.5 dose not supported any more with OCI stage (...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Secure "attach report to email" as a package or report level capability

Within an organization, different data owners often have different policies about attaching data/reports to email. Cognos Analytics should support a more granular configuration for this permission.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limited information available regarding failed export of the content store in the Admin Console:

There is very limited information available when an export of the content store in the admin console failed, even when the "trace" option is enabled in the job. It is when you run a job in IBM Cognos Administration > Configuration > Content ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration