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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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Data Module Filter By Names Should Update in Dashboards

Data modules provides a filter by capability. In a dashboard this allows you to create a filter by picking a name and filter by a code. Reports have been able to do this forever - report prompts have a use and display value. An example is product ...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Dashboard Views need a Save As Option

12.1 introduced Personalized dashboard views. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-personalized-dashboard-views One use for dashboard views is as described in the linked document this open the dashboard in a Consume...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics Dashboard CUG2026

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 ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Allow Conditional Formatting (Color) on Summary/Total cells in Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Current Limitation: In Cognos Analytics Dashboards (including the current 12.1.3 release), the "Conditional color" formatting feature for Crosstab visualizations applies exclusively to detailed data cells. The system completely ignores the Summary...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted
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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 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Enable Inline Expand/Collapse [+]/[-] for Rows AND Columns in Dashboard Crosstabs (Relational Sources)

Current Limitation:Currently, in Cognos Analytics Dashboards (release 12.1.x), the Crosstab visualization lacks native inline Expand/Collapse functionality (the [+] and [-] icons) when querying purely relational data sources (e.g., a standard Star...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

As dashboard designer, we would like to be able to set the border width on visualization

To make a dashboard more attractive, aestheticism is essential Having control on the width of the border (left, top, right, bottom) would allow much more possibilities in term of the design and make the dashboards look modern
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration