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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    Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

    Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

    Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

    Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
    8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

    Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

    Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

    Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

    Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Unifying Audit logs

    Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
    24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

    Enable add external databases in DMC bundled in CP4D

    DMC console bundled with CP4D is capable monitor only DB2 instances deployed inside CP4D. It will be helpfull enable usersconnect also databases ouside of CP4D. For example in case you have deployed Cognos as part of CP4D but your databases are ex...
    22 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

    Connecting watsonx.data to Oracle using tnsnamens.ora

    Develop a possibility to connect watsonx.data to Oracle database using the tnsnames.ora instead of hostname and password.
    20 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

    How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

    We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
    about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Under review

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