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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:


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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,


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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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Differentiate Audit/Server logging for logins through API Keys

Currently, logins through user generated API Keys are recorded as standard user logins within audit/server logging. We'd like to see logins through API Keys differentiated from standard end user logins for increased auditability and visibility.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 6 Planned for future release

Add hierarchy to drop-down list filters for a more custom interactivity.

Similar to a cascading filter set, except directly on the dashboard canvas. Specific Example: I have a dashboard that displays employee hours and it breaks down groups by different categories such as title (e.g. Associate, Senior Associate, Manage...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release
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Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Image Service into the base product.

Incorporate Image Service into the base product so you do not need a additional docker installation of a Linux container so organizations will not install docker.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to - CUG2026

I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration