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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  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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Cognos Analytics

Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Request for Built-in Read-Only Role in Cognos Analytics

We request the introduction of a built-in read-only role in Cognos Analytics 12.x (similar to the Consumer role in older versions of Cognos) that provides read and execute permissions without allowing edit or delete actions. While this requirement...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Enable data modules identifiers to be case insensitive to support compatibility with multiple database platforms

Data module migration from database (Oracle) with uppercase column names to database with lowercase column names (Databricks) or visa versa are not migratable. Validation errors are thrown in the data module for missing identifiers. This requires ...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Enable support for Oracle Partitioning or Oracle Always On

Real-Life Scenario & Pain Points: Consider a large government agency using Cognos Analytics for financial auditing and human resources reporting against a 50-terabyte Oracle data warehouse. A senior financial analyst needs to run a report to a...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub Submitted

Add a few functionality back to report connecting with data modules (example page layers and contextfilter)

A few functionalities where really helpful when using packages/cubes. Please add the folowing functionalities back to reporting where the data source is a data module. Add page layers and contextfilter functionality Add menu options to the sou...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Remove PDF metadata

Sanitize PDF - Remove PDF metadata such as Author, Producer, and Creator from all PDFs created in Cognos either by reports and sent by mail or on the fly from portal. These fields exposed information about the environment or tools used to generate...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

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