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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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,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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    Report Authoring is not Accessibility Compatible

    Issue: We are unable to add data items to a report page without using the mouse. In some tests we are unable to navigate to the Insert-able Objects menus using the keyboard at all. In other instances, user was able to get to the insert-able object...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

    I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 5 Future consideration
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    Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

    Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

    Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

    Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Conditional color formatting in Cognos Dashboard

    Defining specific color schemes within Dashboards for different audiences e.g. health centers like UCD, UCSF, UCSD and UCSD.
    14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Enable setting for admin to force Cognos logs only in English language

    There are language settings on portal and in Cognos Configuration. Our logs are mixed with English and local language. We want logs only in English. That would also be easier for IBM support to understand. Please enable some setting for administra...
    14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Publish a documented list of Configuration Keys that can be accessed via REST API

    The REST API supports retrieving and updating Configuration Keys, but there is no documentation on which keys are delivered with Cognos. It would be nice to have detailed documentation of the supplied keys as well as some examples of how to use cu...
    27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Submitted

    Include transform feature from Natural to Java

    Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

    Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Scheduled Data Server Connection Refresh

    Accurate dashboards and reports depend on up‑to‑date Data Server Connection Assets. In many environments, connection metadata drifts over time due to schema changes, credential updates, or infrastructure modifications. A scheduled, resource-aware ...
    28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Automated Housekeeping of Unused Content

    Cognos environments accumulate many unused reports, dashboards, data modules, and packages over time. This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information. Automated housekeeping ensures only r...
    28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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