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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


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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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Netezza Performance Server

Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Universal Reports Alias

Users would like to bring aliases instead of an element name in rows selectors and columns in a universal report.
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Add full Korean language support to watsonx Orchestrate

Korean language support in watsonx Orchestrate is a business-critical requirement to unlock major enterprise opportunities in Korea.
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
about 21 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Enable secure support for custom Hugging Face models requiring trust_remote_code=True in watsonx.ai BYOM workflows

I am working on deploying a state-of-the-art vision-language model (VLM) via Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in watsonx.ai Runtime (WML), specifically using the vLLM-based inference runtime. The model delivers significantly improved accuracy for OCR a...
2 days ago in Watson Machine Learning / Product functionality Submitted

Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Enable Table/Schema/Database-Level Filtering When Searching Database Columns in Custom Attribute Relationships

Hello, In IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC), we have configured custom attributes with relationships addressing database columns to define primary data source references. However, due to the scale of our organization, the current dropdown ...
2 days ago in Information Server  / Governance Submitted

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted