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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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Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
over 3 years 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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Output embedded reports as part of PDF outputs in Dashboards

The Use case revolves around dashboards that have complex embedded reports as part of the dashboard output. When exporting to PDF, currently, embedded widgets are not shown in the PDF output. This hinders the ability to consolidate and share insig...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add ability to word wrap long text values in Dashboard visualizations

On Dashboard visualizations, when the data items, containing long strings of text, are added to visualizations, the text values are cut off. Customers need to ability to enable word wrap.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration