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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add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Improve Error Logging & Line Number Traceability in SAS connector Parsing

Problem Statement Currently, when parsing errors occur in the Manta SAS Connector, the logs do not provide sufficient details about the root cause. For Example The error message often lacks the specific SAS code line number and the file name whe...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Add Full MCP (Model Context Protocol) Support for AI Agents

Introduce full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Watson Orchestrate to enable standardized, context-aware communication between AI agents and foundation models (e.g., from watsonx.ai). MCP is quickly becoming a universal standard—like US...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Planned for future release

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard Style Dropper

In reporting, there is a 'Pick up style options dropper' which per the documentation is used to copy the formatting of items in the report such as fonts, colors, borders etc. and apply the formatting to other items. I would like to see the same fu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Make Custom Attributes Mandatory

We would like the option to mark certain Custom Attributes as mandatory when creating or editing assets. This would help enforce data governance policies and ensure consistency in metadata population.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement to dashboard standalone-filters

Background: We implemented rolebased security via standalone-filter on a table in a dashboard and noticed a not so consistent behaviour. Note! This standalone-filter is active/enabled in the dashboard when user opens the dashboard. It is nothing a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow Status Updates on Homepage

The user community has asked that we display a message somewhere on our homepage to reflect the datetime of when data was last pulled from our ERP system. We have the datetime available in a cube already. I would like to display that on the homepa...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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