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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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

Suggested Improvement: Incorporating 3D Dashboards into IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to propose, as an improvement initiative for IBM Cognos Analytics, the addition of native functionality that enables the creation of 3D dashboards and visualizations, aimed at enhancing the user experience and offering new ways to int...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Technote Portal to reduce the number of times to authenticate in a day, week or month.

The idea that IBM Technotes need to be controlled is a sound one, but the Authentication is all over the map.  Sometimes requiring 5 logons for one Technote.  If access to the Support pages were authenticated at a higher level in the ali...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 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...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Make Cognos Analytics log file rotation triggering policy configurable instead of using the current hard-coded daily cron-based rollover mechanism.

Allow administrators to configure log file rotation trigger policies, including time-based, size-based, and retention-based rollover options as previous version. Currently, Cognos Analytics uses a hard-coded daily log rollover mechanism implemente...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 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 1 Submitted

Data Module Filter By Names Should Update in Dashboards

Data modules provides a filter by capability. In a dashboard this allows you to create a filter by picking a name and filter by a code. Reports have been able to do this forever - report prompts have a use and display value. An example is product ...
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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 3 Future consideration

Compatibility Support for GITEA for CA 12.1.3 which currently support GitHub and GitLab only.

GITEA is a painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. It's open source under MIT license.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration