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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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Option to Disable Insight from Cognos Assistant

When the Cognos Assistant is queried, it returns both analytical outputs (such as charts and visualizations) as well as accompanying insights. However, since the Cognos Assistant does not leverage an LLM-based approach, these insights are generate...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

A feature/Functionality to export the List of Columns & filters for all Cognos reports

Generate the Report Specification Help to reduce the report redundancy/report Harmonization Business users- Easy for Users to understand via this mapping sheet
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

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 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add a few functionality back to report connecting with data modules (example page layers and contextfilter)

A few functionalities where really helpful when using packages/cubes. Please add the folowing functionalities back to reporting where the data source is a data module. Add page layers and contextfilter functionality Add menu options to the sou...
about 1 hour ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Remove PDF metadata

Sanitize PDF - Remove PDF metadata such as Author, Producer, and Creator from all PDFs created in Cognos either by reports and sent by mail or on the fly from portal. These fields exposed information about the environment or tools used to generate...
about 9 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted