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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.

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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Enabling the use of hidden columns

This would enable sorting according to a different criterion than the one displayed. Example: The product is displayed, but it should be sorted according to the product key. In addition, these values could be used in the drill-through to the repor...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Local separator is not maintained in dashboard Export to CSV when French Language is set for Product and Content Language

Cognos Analytics 12.1.1 provides option to Export to CSV in dashboard (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-option-users-export-visualization-data-csv-file). However, when Product and Content Language is set to Fren...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics dashboard

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Transparent handling in hierarchical filters

Hierarchy filter using time as an example: If a quarter is selected first and a month is also selected, the entire quarter is calculated in the dashboard. However, our users would expect only the month selected for the quarter to be calculated. Pl...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Publish Impact Analysis for Dashbaords in Framework Manager and Data Modules

It would be great if the ability to recognize changes in the FM model or Data Modules via Analyze Publish Impact would also work for dashboards
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Introduction of a permanently visible drill-through button, possibly as a widget

The lack of visibility means that our users do not take full advantage of the flexibility of their dashboards. The drill-through option is often only used once users have attended training.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted