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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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Transparent handling in hierarchical filters

Hierarchy filter using time as an example: If a quarter is selected first and a month is also selected, the entire quarter is calculated in the dashboard. However, our users would expect only the month selected for the quarter to be calculated. Pl...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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
13 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.
13 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...
13 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.
13 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
13 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.
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
28 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration