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


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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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    Hyperlink expression support for Barcharts and other charts (.i.e. for all visualizations as well other than List)

    360 degree feedback and reporting
    2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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 ...
    10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    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.
    15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

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

    Dashboard Views need a Save As Option

    12.1 introduced Personalized dashboard views. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-personalized-dashboard-views One use for dashboard views is as described in the linked document this open the dashboard in a Consume...
    17 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.
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Future consideration

    Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

    A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
    4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

    Enhancements to the Share Report Dialogue window - enhancing kiosk / auto refresh mode

    Within 12.1.3 the report share window now includes an option to auto-refresh. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=components-auto-refresh-reports This creates a URL that runs a report is kiosk mode. To support this new kiosk ...
    30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

    In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

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

    Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

    Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Planned for future release

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