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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    Search not showing all matching entries

    Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

    The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

    Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

    From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
    almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

    Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

    During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
    about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

    In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

    Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Use Filter item + displayitem from Framework Model in Report Studio - CUG2026

    The options in Frameworkmanager Use filter item and Use Display Item for QueryItems is not respected by ReportStudio. RS always filters on the Queryitem itself. This causes "no data found" issue, when users change language as filtered item is lang...
    almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

    Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
    almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    More detail information at the different steps of a job

    A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
    almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

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