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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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    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 ...
    2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 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...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

    Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
    about 9 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    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
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 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...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    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...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

    Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
    3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

    Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

    Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

    Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

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