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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


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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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Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistency in the use of "Sets" vs "Subsets" in PAx

There are inconsistencies in the PAx interface when the word 'set' or 'subset' is used.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

PA Workspace: customize output format of export / email / burst export via "share"

The function is from a UI perspectives almost not usable. The result has to be customizable like Footer font (type, size, color) optional text with snippets of date, time, name of user, link etc. (like in MS Word), page number Header Customizable ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Simplification and consistency of "Covert to" options in PAx

"Convert to Snapshot" in right click menu can be confused with "Convert To" option in PAx ribbon when then functionality is different. "Convert To" allows conversion to other types of reports while "Convert to Snapshot" saves values as static in t...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Folder Security

We would like to have a feature that allows a user to create contentwithin a folder(reports, other folders, etc..), but disallows them frombeing able to delete any content. In other words, we would like it suchthat 'write' permissions don't necess...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for wrap text in a crosstab

[PH00899] Text in a crosstab column not being word wrapped in 11.0.11
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Select "Forward match" or "Pattern match" in the field of "Filter condition" in the Report screen

In the field of "Filter Condition" in the Report Screen, when we search the item by "Pattern match" we have to use "%" in front of "search word". Some users find it difficult to use"%" .This function was included in Cognos BI 10.2, but it is gone ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improvements in Sanction screening logic to prevent false negatives

1. Allow clients to optionally disable limitation for number of word tokens in Sanction screening. Currently when a name is sent for Sanction screening and the field that is screened contains more word tokens (words divided by spaces) than the act...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review