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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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Enable Hyperlink Expression and JavaScript Click Event Support for Standard Visualizations

Currently in IBM Cognos Analytics Reports, standard visualisations such as Bar Charts and others do not support hyperlink expressions directly on chart elements. Additionally, the standard visualisation framework does not expose click event handli...
about 6 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Button Formatting

Can we request an enhancement to Cognos to incorporate innate style changes for the “Finish” prompt button so it is visually different when there are incomplete required prompts? I did a search and the solutions all required javascript or variable...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Eliminating Mandatory Master-Detail Relationships if same query is tied to page and crosstab/chart

Currently, when the same query is tied to both the page and the crosstab/visualization, the product requires defining a master-detail relationship. While this behavior is consistent across visualizations, crosstabs, and earlier product versions, i...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Move or Rename a referenced Distribution List

Cognos Admin currently supports the moving of Distribution Lists , but when someone does this, any report schedule referencing this DL breaks - we need the ability to use the functionality as intended In the same area, a DL can be renamed, but onc...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Configurable Date Range Warning for Report Studio & Self‑Service Reporting

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Requested Enhancement 1. Admin‑Configurable Maximum Date Range Administrators should be able to configure the maximum all...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted