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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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Add/enable connection from DataStage to confluent cloud topics having OAUTH support for schema registry.

We are trying to connect to confluent cloud topic from on-prem Datastage with kafka connector used in jobs.To connect for confluent cloud topic we select OAUTHBEARER property in kafka connector. According to our use case, we are facing issue while...
28 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Planned for future release

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Store filter selections per user in shared Dashboards

In shared Dashboards it would be great if each user can store his individual filter values in drop down filters so when he access the dashboard later it would be loaded by using those filters.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

InfoSphere Information Server support Linux on Power architecture

We have Power equipment with Linux OS and need to install IIS on this platform.
over 9 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release