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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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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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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 ...
about 1 month 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 This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information.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...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Admin Agent: Automated Credential Health & Rotation

Overview: The Cognos Administration Agent should provide a fully automated and proactive Credential Health & Rotation capability to prevent schedule failures caused by expired, deprovisioned, or misconfigured credentials. This feature strength...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 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.
16 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...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
207 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration
193 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration