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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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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

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

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2

Dashboard Features

1. Can the Dashboard report be scheduled? To be emailed to Inbox 2. Can a dashboard report output be exported/scheduled to run in Excel? So that it can be attached to email delivery method
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add compatibility check between a PDB artifacts and the respective TKANMOD lib to avoid LOAD step failures

During a recent upgrade of Omegamon, the holddoc was reviewed, and no references to the PDB were found. Due to this fact, the team performing the upgrade did not include the team that specifically supports this database and the loading of these ta...
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

Spark binaries and configuration files in Spark deployment directory should reside in read-only file system

Currently during provisioning of Spark instance groups we have to specify a deployment directory on NFS which does not exist prior to IG creation. Due to security concerns and software best practices we would like Spark Instance group creation to ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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