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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    Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

    linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

    Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

    Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Add missing feature to Glass UI: Show number of outputs for a report

    In the old Admin Console, when looking at View Report Output Versions, the right pane shows the number of outputs. This is missing in GlassUI and, for bulk reports, is a useful information to have that cannot be found anywhere else.
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
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    Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

    I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

    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...
    16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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.
    17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

    Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    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...
    21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

    I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
    12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration

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