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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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Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Regarding the move rename script process

Regarding the move rename script process https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/9.0.0?topic=databases-entity-moverename-utility We want to propose a better function to batch move or rename business entitiessomething we tell you what kind of move re...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Possibility to manually edit shortcut url-path

If a report or dashboard change name we need to create a new shortcut. We would like to have the possibility to easily edit the shortcut url-path.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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

My parameters behavior don't have expected behavior

When you're report use the "My parameters" functionnality and save as report view (by using the "save as report view" button), the value of the selection of the "My parameters" is stored in the report view details. When the values has been stored ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release