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

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

Change aggregated output option for CSV export

Consider a data module containing transaction records with the following columns: Store, Product, Sales Date, and Quantity Sold. The user wants to create a Table visual in a dashboard that contains only two columns - Product and and aggregated Tot...
6 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...
7 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 ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Show full source path in dashboard source details

In Cognos Dashboards, only the name of the source is shown, not its full folder path. This becomes a problem when sources (e.g. datasets) with the same name exist in different folders, because users cannot identify which exact source is linked to ...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

KPI Visualization for Current Period and Change Value and Percentage - Cognos Analytics Dashboard

KPI Visualization for Current Period and Change Value and Percentage - Cognos Analytics Dashboard. Existing KPI chart:Current Period/Base valuePrior Period/Target value Comparison %/Distance % Suggested additional KPI chart: Current Period/Base va...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Flexibility on label location on individual item label format

Label location: Inside, Outside, Outside dense, Call out Item label format: Item name, Value, Percentage In the current settings, item label format has to go always together (e.g. item name and value and percentage). It always get congested inside...
13 days 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

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
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted