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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).


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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

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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...
2 days 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...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
3 days 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. ...
3 days 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...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 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...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Scheduled Data Server Connection Refresh

Accurate dashboards and reports depend on up‑to‑date Data Server Connection Assets. In many environments, connection metadata drifts over time due to schema changes, credential updates, or infrastructure modifications. A scheduled, resource-aware ...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Automated Housekeeping of Unused Content

Cognos environments accumulate many unused reports, dashboards, data modules, and packages over time. This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information. Automated housekeeping ensures only r...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Admin Agent: Automated Credential Health & Rotation

Overview: The Cognos Administration Agent should provide a fully automated and proactive Credential Health & Rotation capability to prevent schedule failures caused by expired, deprovisioned, or misconfigured credentials. This feature strength...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Creating a dashboard drillthrough link should allow us to target shortcuts

Many orgs use shortcuts as a mechanism to simplify access to reports and dashboards. As such, it should be possible to use shortcuts for actions that would affect the target of the shortcuts. Shortcuts to reports and explorations should be conside...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted