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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).


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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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  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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Administration

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 ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Allow renewal of Cognos internal certificates PRIOR to expiration

Currently, Cognos Analytics only renews its internal certificates for https connections upon expiry. Once certificates are expired, the certificates can be renewed by stopping services, saving config, and then starting up services. If we want to f...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration