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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DataSet - Set the aggregation operator for measure computed with count distinct to the aggregation method set in properties

1. Create a dataset with one of the column defined as count(distinct ...) Modify the item in Query and set aggregation as Total 2. Refresh the dataset 3. Create a dashboard As shown in the screen capture, aggregation method is set to Minimum Agreg...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Enable Mermaid Diagram Rendering in Chat Interface

We request the enhancement of IBM watsonx Orchestrate (WXO) chat interface to support native rendering of Mermaid diagrams directly within chat responses. Currently, when Mermaid syntax is included in responses, it is displayed as plain text, requ...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
13 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

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

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
24 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Product for ARM bases chips

Qualcomm cannot use PFAE with ARM based chips and majority of their laptop have those type of chips.
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

TI code migration

We have two very similar Databases. I was about to start ensuring TI code was matched on some processes between these servers. I drilled into processes, and thought this would be a wonderful place to introduce a tool to import or directly compare ...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

On the relationship attribute filter working on enter key, include click event search icon

Hi, On the relationship attribute filter working on enter key, include click event search icon
3 days ago in Product Master Submitted

Officially integrate the "Sample to fire trigger using API Key" accelerator into the Cognos Analytics product

We're going to switch our SSO authentication method from "LDAP for Active Directory" to OpenID Connect. We're launching some burst batches using the trigger.sh script provided in the Cognos installation. This script requires a username and passwor...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

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