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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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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.

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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...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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...
about 6 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support for Data Quality Rules and Meta Data Enrichment with Azure Fabric Warehouse Connector

The connector available on CP4D SaaS only supports Datastage and MDI. In oder to fulfill advanced data governance scenarios, a customer must place an intermediate Databricks repository and duplicate data, making their architecture more complex and...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 4 Submitted

Combination chart with target

We would like a visualization that combines line visualization and target column/bar. This would be great to display status vs budget for each day or month while also displaying the running total.
about 3 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix that adding a lookupstage removes sort information from a link

If you sort data on a link (or mark it as sorted with a sort stage and don't sort previously sorted), then this information is lost (the information that the data is sorted, not the sorting itself) if there is a lookupstage downstream (that does n...
about 4 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Global parameter to make PafE Read only except admin

User should be able to only read in PafE independent of the user rights specified in the TM1 database. Admin should be excepted and should continue to have all rights.
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Restriction can not be exported for Custom Relation and Custom Attribute

We have crated custom properties and custom relationship. There we added some restrictions. But when we are trying to export them, in JSON, via UI or API, We are able to see the restrictions we have added but only their corresponding Artifact IDs....
about 7 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted