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.

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Cognos Analytics

Add Native Watermarking to Cognos Analytics for Content Protection and User Accountability

IBM Cognos Analytics currently lacks native watermarking functionality, creating significant challenges for organizations that need to protect confidential reports and dashboards from unauthorized distribution. Current Impact: a) Security Risk: No...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Brushing Improvements - CUG2026

Brushing is great step, but it could be improved in a few ways. We should be able to use items defined in data container properties. I would expect that I would be able to set parameters on items defined in the list properties. At the moment if ...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Update referenced IDs of "Favorites" and "Recently Used Items" during content store import - CUG2026

When importing a content store export into Cognos in the administration console, there are two options: keep existing IDs during import or assign new IDs during import. In some cases, new IDs during import has to be chosen to prevent the system fr...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Creating multiple separate bursting folders using different location paths

We want to set up a new burst folder path where we would like to burst the reports into multiple automatically created folders. For now this setting CM.OutputByBurstKey only works in conjunction with the CM.OutPutLocation which means all outputs f...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Built in function for "Select All" feature for dropdown filters in Cognos Dashboard

Currently, Cognos Dashboard filters (dropdowns with multi-select) do not provide a native “Select All / Deselect All” option. This makes it difficult for users to quickly include or exclude multiple values—especially in cases like selecting all co...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
4 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.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

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

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

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

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.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

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