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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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Creating a dashboard drillthrough link should allow us to target shortcuts

Many orgs use shortcuts as a mechanism to simplify access to reports and dashboards. As such, it should be possible to use shortcuts for actions that would affect the target of the shortcuts. Shortcuts to reports and explorations should be conside...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add hierarchy to drop-down list filters for a more custom interactivity.

Similar to a cascading filter set, except directly on the dashboard canvas. Specific Example: I have a dashboard that displays employee hours and it breaks down groups by different categories such as title (e.g. Associate, Senior Associate, Manage...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Accessibility Enhancements: Programmatic determination of grid visualizations (Crosstab and List)

Programmatic Determination of grid visualizations in Dashboard capability to ensure assistive screen reader tools can decipher which header applies to which cell.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Accessibility Enhancement: Provide accessible name and accessible description for scroll bar arrows on visualizations

Requesting to add accessible name and accessible description for the intent of the scroll bar arrows on the visualization. The screen tip indicating scroll up or scroll down when hovering over the arrows will enable screen reader audience to under...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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...
3 months 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
3 months 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.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Advanced filter creation options

In addition to the option of creating a calculation, it would be very helpful to have the option (similar to ReportStudio) of using Boolean expressions for filter creation. For example, you could then simply create a filter that outputs the last 1...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted