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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    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 ...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    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.
    25 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...
    25 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.
    25 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

    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...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 5 Future consideration

    Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

    We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 Future consideration

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