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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.

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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...
1 day 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...
16 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...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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

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...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Allow DNS name in IMS notification exit

Right now, as best as I can see, to use the IMS notification exit you must use the IP address in the assembler exit configuration table (CECE1OPT). This requirement to use IP has been frowned upon by our network team, they would prefer a DNS name....

Add to the elastic index lsf_job_acct a field that will save memory limit set to a job

Adding this data to elastic will enable us in a simple way to find jobs with memory limit higher than memory requested and to check actual usage of memory
41 minutes ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

Hover over governance artifacts

Currently, the descriptions of governance artifacts are only available in the documentation and in configurations and settings -> manage assets and artifact definitions. For example, explanations such as what a category is, its purpose, its lif...
43 minutes ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Modify Default Dropdown Values for New CSV Options

While the newly implemented CSV options for generating custom CSV files are highly appreciated and beneficial for users, we have identified that some of the default dropdown values for the new CSV options are inappropriate and do not align with th...
about 1 hour ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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 20 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted