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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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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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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...
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 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...
about 21 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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. ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Share this report via email to me / Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>

I'm using Agentic IA from the Assistant panel. I don't use anonymous access on my server so my server knows who I am. I would like to use "Share this report via email to me" or "Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>". I...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Publish a documented list of Configuration Keys that can be accessed via REST API

The REST API supports retrieving and updating Configuration Keys, but there is no documentation on which keys are delivered with Cognos. It would be nice to have detailed documentation of the supplied keys as well as some examples of how to use cu...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 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

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted