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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    Alerts/Notifications

    Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

    IDAA loader SMF type 115 subtype 216 class 5

    We are looking at using the Db2 Analytics Accelerator for our core SMF data . MQ 9.4 has a capability where it collects queue level statistics in SMF115 subtype 216 data. The data collected is the equivalent data of issuing a queue status command....
    3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Under review

    Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

    I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

    Add compatibility with the latest version of React to Custom Visualizations

    Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. The latest version of React includes server side ...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

    Customize the shape of plots On Maps

    Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
    almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

    This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

    IBCS standard visualizations

    IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

    In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

    use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

    We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Add compatibility with CSS post-processing to custom visualizations

    Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. Many modern UI libraries (such as Material-UI and...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

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