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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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...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Sorting Stack Bar Chart X-axis on Measure Value In Dashboard

This would allow the x-axis value of a stacked bar chart (and others) to be sorted on a measure value that is a part of the data module or a calculation that does not appear in the visualization. In the attached screen shot, there are 3 length mea...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Conditional color formatting in Cognos Dashboard

Defining specific color schemes within Dashboards for different audiences e.g. health centers like UCD, UCSF, UCSD and UCSD.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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...
about 2 months 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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

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