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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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Quick command to "Blue box" in PAW

Our users feels that there sometimes is difficult to go through the blue box to be able to export to excel. It is especially difficult if it is a large view and a small screen, when they feel that they can't always get hold of the blue box. They w...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Provide File attachment capability within Activity View

The only object view where a a file may be attached is in Detail View. Providing a way to attach a file in an Activity View would be beneficial.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

Allow Edit/Delete of Comments on Questionnaires

Current functionality doesn't allow Comments attached to question responses to be edited or deleted by any users or administrators. We require the ability for these Comments to at least be deleted and preferably also edited by the user who entered...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Support for Encryption of Files / Encrypted File System

Files attached to Objects in OpenPages could contain sensitive information. These files are physically stored on the op-storage mount point on OpenPages Server. The requirement is for OpenPages to support encryption / decryption of these files or ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Delivered

Enable Options to attach supporting in Journals

There is no option to attach backups for Cognos journal. Enable option to attach documents.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered

Chart Axis Range not honored

System: IBM Cognos 11.0.x or 10.2.xActor: Report developerDescription: Report developers want to produce charts that show sufficient detail for the smaller values in a report without regard for known anomalies that lie outside some reasonable rang...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

by default email options set to "Include a link to the report" to avoid hugh attachments clogging up the system

update default option in "advanced options" when report is selected to be mailed to "Include a link to the report" instead of "Attach the report"; This is meant to avoid that endusers accidentally forget to untick the default "Attach the report"; ...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered