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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    Improved Extension & Visualization Management in Cognos Deployments

    Cognos currently treats all extensions and visualizations as a single flat collection. During deployment, the system automatically includes every extension/visualization on the source server, with no way to distinguish between: IBM‑delivered sam...
    24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Cognos Analytics (CA) with Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance with QRADAR

    Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Cognos Analytics is fragmented. ...
    24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Share this report via email to me / Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>

    I'm using Agentic IA from the Assistant panel. I don't use anonymous access on my server so my server knows who I am. I would like to use "Share this report via email to me" or "Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>". I...
    24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted
    143 VOTE

    Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

    I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

    Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data - CUG2026

    Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

    Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release

    Allow multiple File System Root Locations to save scheduled report outputs

    Supporting multiple Archive Location File System Roots for saving scheduled report outputs would allow Cognos to store reports across different storage servers for capacity planning, departmental separation, or migration scenarios. This would bene...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted
    126 VOTE

    Option to Run Schedule Once

    We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

    Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
    11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

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