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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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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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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.

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


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Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration
114 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future 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.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Change font size and color for value labels in dashboards

There is no ability to change the size and color of the font for value labels in dashboards. The font is fairly small and does not change with resizing.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Functionality already exists

Dashboard Multiselect / Select All Prompt like in Qlik to keep Values for ex. Cohort Analysis

we are looking for a widget where we can set directly in a dashboard e.g. all currently visible, so displayed USER_IDs (can be thousands) page directly as a filter for all widgets. (a kind of "select all" function, like a multiselect prompt in Rep...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration