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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Batch job to convert Dashboards to new Cognos Version

When IBM deploys a new series release (e.g. 11.0, 11.1, 11.2), users are prompted to resave the dashboard to 'convert' it to the new series and stop the convert/save message from reappearing on the screen. We are an OEM shop with many clients usin...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Dashboard integation with TM1 Planning Analytics

Creating a Dashboard in Cognos Analytics against a TM1/Planning Analytics data source needs better integration. TM1 users become comfortable creating Cube Views so there is an opportunity to integrate the systems by exposing Cube Views in Cognos A...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration