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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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    Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

    The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Allow renewal of Cognos internal certificates PRIOR to expiration

    Currently, Cognos Analytics only renews its internal certificates for https connections upon expiry. Once certificates are expired, the certificates can be renewed by stopping services, saving config, and then starting up services. If we want to f...
    4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration
    145 VOTE

    Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

    Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under 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

    Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

    Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release
    150 VOTE

    Sorting items in Team Content and My Content - folders before reports

    Sort items (folders, reports) in the same way like in Cognos 10 - folders first and than reports.
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Functionality already exists

    Alerts/Notifications

    Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

    Dashboard - Views

    We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2
    143 VOTE

    Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

    I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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