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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    In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

    Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

    Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
    9 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under 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.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

    Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

    Drill-Through from Reporting to Dashboards – CUG2026

    Support direct drill-through navigation from reports to dashboards.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    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.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

    Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
    about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    OLAP Support in Data Modules – CUG2026

    Support DMR or Dynamic Cubes with proper dimensional modeling and hierarchical navigation in data modules. Same as https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CAOP-I-398 from 2018 Is now labeld as Planned for future release
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

    Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

    When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
    14 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

    Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

    Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
    about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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