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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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Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Visualization Properties - Labels

I find inconsistencies in the ability to display labels (items/values/both) on the various dashboard OOTB visualizations. For example, a heat-map appears to have no options to display labels at all. Some have the option to display labels but with ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration