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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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Update referenced IDs of "Favorites" and "Recently Used Items" during content store import - CUG2026

When importing a content store export into Cognos in the administration console, there are two options: keep existing IDs during import or assign new IDs during import. In some cases, new IDs during import has to be chosen to prevent the system fr...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Creating multiple separate bursting folders using different location paths

We want to set up a new burst folder path where we would like to burst the reports into multiple automatically created folders. For now this setting CM.OutputByBurstKey only works in conjunction with the CM.OutPutLocation which means all outputs f...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enforce Data Set Object Capability Validation Before Opening Data Set Editor

When a non-admin user with the global Data Set capability selects a package or data module that does not have the Data Set object capability enabled, the Data Set editor still opens successfully. However, the user receives capability errors only w...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Simplify Renewal of Third Party SSL Certificates

We have our own in-house CA and generate third party SSL certificates for our servers. These expire every 12 months. The process of renewing them in Cognos Analytics is very tedious in that we have to essentially rebuild the keystore every time by...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Support for configurable PodDisruptionBudgets (PDB) for CACC

We request full, documented support for Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudgets (PDBs) in IBM Red Hat OpenShift environments running Cognos Analytics Certified Container (CACC), to protect Cognos availability during planned operations (node drain, cluster...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enable HTTP/1.1 support in Cognos SOAP SDK to prevent “426 Upgrade Required”

We are currently unable to call CACC (Cognos Analytics Certified Containers) ServiceMesh endpoints via the Cognos SOAP SDK because the requests fail with HTTP error 426 Upgrade Required. The root cause appears to be that the ServiceMesh URL requir...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Support for Multiple Gateway URIs per Cognos Instance (CACC)

Currently, only one gateway URI can be configured for a Cognos instance (CACC). In modern IT architectures, especially when using ServiceMesh, there is a requirement to provide multiple access paths via different URLs to support various network ro...
20 days 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Cognos Analytics (CA) with Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance with QRADAR

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Cognos Analytics is fragmented. ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted