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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    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

    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?
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

    Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

    Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
    9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

    Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

    Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

    Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

    When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

    Give us better Tab Icons

    Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

    Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

    All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

    Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

    If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

    Expand/Collapse in dashboard

    You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

    Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

    Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

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