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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.

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Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

New system user creation, password reset and configuration change activities

Our pain point is that we need to perform re-deployment activity for container{pod} with downtime approx 15-20 min for specific use cases. These are as follows: 1. Users. Creation of new system user and resetting of existing user's password. 2. ...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Pick created Dashboard visualizations in read-only mode

Dashboard is created with viz and the author also includes other viz not shown on the canvas. This dashboard is published to user base. User base (non-edit mode) can then remove. resize viz and a select the other viz associated with the dashboard....
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos allow other members from PA cube to be used as members and enable multiple widget connections

I would like to be able to use all dimensions from OLAP source as measures in visualizations. Currently I can only compare members that are in measure dimension in KPI visualization. This makes it so that you cant compare Actual vs Budget or any m...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Data Masking

Column mask : A column mask specifies the value to be returned for a specified column based on the role. Example: Paul from the payroll department can see the social security number of the employee whose employee number is 123456. Mary who is a ma...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration