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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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CUG 2026: Support Data Modules for the Event Agent

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

GIT for Datastage NG (based on review with customer)

Together with the customer we validated the initial version of Git for Datastage NG. Customer is using Datastage NG based on CPD 5.2.1 in production since y25. As the idea comprises a lot of aspects including diagrams, we created a document and ad...
about 5 hours ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

User Selector filter for "includes any of the selected users"

In the filter tab in object grid views, if a user selector field is selected, the options are: "Is empty", "Is not empty" and "Includes all of the selected users". We propose the addition of "Includes any of the selected users". This will prove to...
about 5 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Submitted

A setting to enable frozen column headers in grid view so that column titles remain visible while users scroll down

When users scroll down in the any grid view, column headers disappear from the screen. This makes it difficult for users to understand which data belongs to which column and negatively impacts the user experience. It is recommended to freeze (make...
about 5 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Allow administrators to set default table row size (Compact) for all users.

Please provide the extension file, or alternatively, we can update it through the system properties.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Modify Default Dropdown Values for New CSV Options

While the newly implemented CSV options for generating custom CSV files are highly appreciated and beneficial for users, we have identified that some of the default dropdown values for the new CSV options are inappropriate and do not align with th...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted