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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  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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Allow Cognos Analytics use of the Microsoft graph API to require minimum privileged apis for OIDC integration

Cognos Analytics uses the Microsoft Graph API to resolve group names from their IDs via the following endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/getByIds Typically, this API requires the Group.Read.All application permission. However, in ce...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Scheduled Data Server Connection Refresh

Accurate dashboards and reports depend on up‑to‑date Data Server Connection Assets. In many environments, connection metadata drifts over time due to schema changes, credential updates, or infrastructure modifications. A scheduled, resource-aware ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Automated Housekeeping of Unused Content

Cognos environments accumulate many unused reports, dashboards, data modules, and packages over time. This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information. Automated housekeeping ensures only r...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Admin Agent: Automated Credential Health & Rotation

Overview: The Cognos Administration Agent should provide a fully automated and proactive Credential Health & Rotation capability to prevent schedule failures caused by expired, deprovisioned, or misconfigured credentials. This feature strength...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Modify Default Dropdown Values for New CSV Options

While the newly implemented CSV options for generating custom CSV files are highly appreciated and beneficial for users, we have identified that some of the default dropdown values for the new CSV options are inappropriate and do not align with th...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Differentiate Audit/Server logging for logins through API Keys

Currently, logins through user generated API Keys are recorded as standard user logins within audit/server logging. We'd like to see logins through API Keys differentiated from standard end user logins for increased auditability and visibility.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enable selecting members from another namespace inside Role or Group like it is in Admin console

When you have 2 namespaces and you are logged into just one and you want to remove some users from role, in Manage you cannot select them. This works in Admin console and speeds up the process. When some namespace becomes obsolete you can clean gr...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enable setting for admin to force Cognos logs only in English language

There are language settings on portal and in Cognos Configuration. Our logs are mixed with English and local language. We want logs only in English. That would also be easier for IBM support to understand. Please enable some setting for administra...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Improved Extension & Visualization Management in Cognos Deployments

Cognos currently treats all extensions and visualizations as a single flat collection. During deployment, the system automatically includes every extension/visualization on the source server, with no way to distinguish between: IBM‑delivered sam...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

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