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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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

Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Dashboard visualisation top 10 should have an option to use olympic and dense ranking

Within a dashboard, if you limit a chart to show the top 10 it uses DENSE ranking to show the top 10. Dense ranking is the most uncommon type of ranking, Olympic ranking is far more common and the usual default. Take the following data set of Prod...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Dashboard - Influence CSV settings

The pain is that dashboard output (widget for example) can be exported now to CSV, but there is no way to influence the CSV. It is always comma seperated. For reporting, there are numerous ways now (its been added to Cognos) to influence and manag...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Add a global setting to disable/hide the Notes icon and Notes option on Cognos Analytics dashboards.

Currently, the Notes option appears on dashboard objects and there is no global setting or role customization available to remove it. The only available workaround is to hide the Notes option individually at the dashboard level. For organizations ...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Planned for future release

Drill-Through from Reporting to Dashboards – CUG2026

Support direct drill-through navigation from reports to dashboards.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration
700 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration