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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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Allow security menu group rights to be imported

Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
13 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

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...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Improve Polish Translation in IBM Cognos Controller Web

We have identified incorrect Polish translations in IBM Cognos Controller Web interface for basic form types. These terms are used daily and are critical for usability. Current translations are not only inaccurate but misleading: English: Standa...
10 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Is a defect

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

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...
12 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
12 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.
12 days 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...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted