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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).


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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,

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  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

Optionally define export permissions on folders, data connections and data modules

At this moment we can assign people via an AD group to an export capability. Next, Users with this assignment have the capacity to export any report or dashboard they can access. We also have dashboards and reports or certain data sources that we ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics supports the Microsoft Analysis Services 2025 (M17) data server (ODBO and XMLA)

Hello, After updating the Microsoft Analysis Services source from the old 2016 version to the latest 2025 version (which has been generally available as RTM/GA since November 18, 2025), the Microsoft Analysis Services source and OLAP cubes stopped...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

API SOAP to connect to SalesForce will be depreciated by SalesForce by sprint 2027

I suggest to work on a new way to connect Cognos Analytics to SalesForce
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Oracle 26ai compatibility for Content Store

Oracle 26ai is not yet supported by Cognos Analytics for Cotent Store and Data Source. 26ai is more or less a rebranding of 23ai.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Future consideration

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration
700 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Planned for future release