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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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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.

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CUG 2026: Support Data Modules for the Event Agent

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...
about 11 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Report Authoring is not Accessibility Compatible

Issue: We are unable to add data items to a report page without using the mouse. In some tests we are unable to navigate to the Insert-able Objects menus using the keyboard at all. In other instances, user was able to get to the insert-able object...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support for Data Quality Rules and Meta Data Enrichment with Azure Fabric Warehouse Connector

The connector available on CP4D SaaS only supports Datastage and MDI. In oder to fulfill advanced data governance scenarios, a customer must place an intermediate Databricks repository and duplicate data, making their architecture more complex and...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 4 Submitted

Remove "All Workbooks" from Snapshot dropdown (maybe add snapshot selection?)

In IBM Planning Analytics for Excel, under Snapshot, it offers: Sheet, Workbook, All Workbooks. Multiple users in my company have mentioned that it is scary to see that "All Workbooks" option - and the possible risk of unintentionally snapping unr...
about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source You support all other versions of SQL Server up to 2022 - SQL 2025 now released as of Dec 2025 - please can you add support for SQL Server 2025 to IBM CDC 11.4 As ...
about 5 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Combination chart with target

We would like a visualization that combines line visualization and target column/bar. This would be great to display status vs budget for each day or month while also displaying the running total.
about 9 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix that adding a lookupstage removes sort information from a link

If you sort data on a link (or mark it as sorted with a sort stage and don't sort previously sorted), then this information is lost (the information that the data is sorted, not the sorting itself) if there is a lookupstage downstream (that does n...
about 9 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted