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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:


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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Cognos Analytics

Cognos MetaData Rollback while Faulty Upgrade

We are currently reviewing our Cognos analytics upgrade and rollback strategy and would like IBM’s guidance regarding Content Store rollback capabilities across Cognos versions. This holds true for Notification and Audit stores as well. Current un...
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

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

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

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

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

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

Drill-Through from Reporting to Dashboards – CUG2026

Support direct drill-through navigation from reports to dashboards.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

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

Enhanced Visualizations in Reporting/Dashboards – CUG2026

A unified, feature-complete visualization type supporting master-detail, SVG output, high-resolution export (including PDF), and new chart types such as native Gantt charts.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Interactive Viewer should work when data containers are referenced using Layout Component References

Layout Component References allow you to reuse content from one report within another. This is a great feature allowing you to have a basic library of objects and reuse them across multiple reports. In an enterprise solution this allows you to eas...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted