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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Cognos Analytics

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Publish Impact Analysis for Dashbaords in Framework Manager and Data Modules

It would be great if the ability to recognize changes in the FM model or Data Modules via Analyze Publish Impact would also work for dashboards
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Introduction of a permanently visible drill-through button, possibly as a widget

The lack of visibility means that our users do not take full advantage of the flexibility of their dashboards. The drill-through option is often only used once users have attended training.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Advanced filter creation options

In addition to the option of creating a calculation, it would be very helpful to have the option (similar to ReportStudio) of using Boolean expressions for filter creation. For example, you could then simply create a filter that outputs the last 1...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Define centrally adjustable dashboard templates

This would greatly support the implementation of the corporate design (font sizes, number formats, etc.) and the standardized dashboard display.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Unchangeable filter

A filter that can be implemented in the global area of the filter bar or in the tab area in such a way that it cannot be changed, meaning that a user cannot remove it
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Information Button with mouseover text

Such a button —or simply the option of a mouseover for various dashboard objects—would be very helpful in explaining certain elements of a dashboard in more detail.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration
207 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration
144 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration
192 VOTE

Allow users to see status of their report runs

In Cognos 10 users had the option to go to "My Activities & Schedules" to see the status of their report runs. Sometimes a long running report could be still running or it could have experienced an error when running. Users used to be able to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration