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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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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enhancing the table or crosstab visiual

When having a table that contains a column that's a parent for others for examples it merge this cell in way making it hard to read, additionally i can't control the column width size. This affects in one of big telecommunication client experience.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

dashboard infographic - centred on page

A dashboard created with the infographic template is always left aligned. It pushes the dashboard upto the left hand edge of the browser window. This makes the dashboard look bad, it makes it look like it is wasting a lot of screen estate. Typical...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Style Dropper

In reporting, there is a 'Pick up style options dropper' which per the documentation is used to copy the formatting of items in the report such as fonts, colors, borders etc. and apply the formatting to other items. I would like to see the same fu...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration