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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    539 VOTE

    Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

    Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

    Burmese Language Support

    We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
    24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Sorting Stack Bar Chart X-axis on Measure Value In Dashboard

    This would allow the x-axis value of a stacked bar chart (and others) to be sorted on a measure value that is a part of the data module or a calculation that does not appear in the visualization. In the attached screen shot, there are 3 length mea...
    7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
    513 VOTE

    Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

    I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

    Move or Rename a referenced Distribution List

    Cognos Admin currently supports the moving of Distribution Lists , but when someone does this, any report schedule referencing this DL breaks - we need the ability to use the functionality as intended In the same area, a DL can be renamed, but onc...
    about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

    MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

    Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

    Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review
    341 VOTE

    Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

    We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Allow administrators to set default table row size (Compact) for all users.

    Please provide the extension file, or alternatively, we can update it through the system properties.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

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