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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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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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DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Appending Month Name or Fiscal Period to the PDF Report Output

The requirement is whenever we schedule a report can we get the current month/ fiscal period appended with the report name once we get the output in View history ex :- ABC_DEC2017 or ABC_DEC_FY-17 where ABC is the name of the file? I need this DEC...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add User Name to XML File For External File Delivery

A Cognos User wants to utilize the external file delivery method in order to deliver reports to their OneDrive account. However, the accompanying XML file that is created along with the report output does not contain that user's name, and therefor...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstabs - Top or Bottom Filter apply to specific column

In a Dashboard Crosstab the 'Top or Bottom' filter applies to all columns, it would be more useful if the user could specify which column in the crosstab the filter would apply too.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow non-https URLs in dashboard

Cant add an http URL in the dashboard only https. This prevents adding intranet URLs and also known safe http sites
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Additional spaces in a Value Prompt when static values used

Additional empty spaces in a Value Prompt/ Radio button prompt in a interactive report when static values used and multiselect set to yes. No additional spaces in non interactive report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration