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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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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Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Administration
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Created on Mar 9, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

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 samples

  • Customer‑developed extensions

  • Experimental or in‑progress visualizations/extensions not ready for production

This creates several challenges:

  • IBM sample extensions inflate the total list, making it difficult to identify customer‑authored or “core” extensions.

  • Experimental or prototype visualizations cannot be excluded from deployment, even when teams want to keep them local for testing.

  • There is no organizational structure (e.g., subfolders) to categorize or isolate extensions.

Proposed IDEA:

1) Support for Subfolder or Categorization of Extensions/Visualizations

2) Selective Include/Exclude Options During Deployment

Needed By Quarter

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