Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Subscribe to Trigger

Allow users to subscribe to receive a report based on a trigger schedule
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

names for JOB's steps

Would it be possible to give names to the different steps of a job? it would be easier to select the single one to be modified when there are many steps within the same jon
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Have an option to search in a location, a subdirectory

Sometimes there are too many results for the search engine. It will be interesting to limit the search to a subdirectory.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DASHBOARDS-Ability to define IMAGE URL based on Data items/Calcs

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow Filters to be edited by clicking if shown in report

The new reporting tool lacks the capability that Query Studio offered in the shown filters could be removed or edited by clicking on them. The overall style of how they are shown in 11.0.3 are far less superior than what Query Studio offered.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show the Prompt header or title name for second prompt when there is a cascading between two prompts in interactive mode.

Currently Second prompt header or title showing only when we run the report in non-interactive mode.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Error messages in Cognos BI are unclear.

When users are sharing a report url with a user who doesn't have the rights to see the report we get the following message: 'CCL-PLG-0001 Failed to load the pluggable shared library', which is really unclear. A better message would be ' The user d...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration