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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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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Tabs for Open Content in Reporting

In reporting there is currently a drop down to view what multiple reports, dashboards etc a user has open, this is located in the middle, It would be useful for users to have a tabbed view of what's open and also encourage users to close content t...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Authenticated Stored XSS due to malformed URLs in Dashboard and Story link widgets

Stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities arise when user input is stored and later embedded into the application's responses in an unsafe way. An attacker can use the vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript code into the application, which...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted