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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Layout improvement for dashboard visualizations

Using relative positioning for the dashboard canvas, it is very difficult to properly lineup the visualizations, they do not snap to bordering visualizations. Lets says you have 3 visualizations and the first 2 have a width of 11% you would expect...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drilltrough - View Report as Excelsheet

Our Cognos Team is now digging into dashboards and would like to enhance the dashboards drilltrough behaviour. When doing a drilltrough from a dashboard to a report, the resulting report will always be opened and displayed as a HTML page.Although ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Default Settings For Tools

We would like the ability to change or save the default settings in tools. Currently in a tool (ex Report Studio) if we change the settings under Options, the settings are not retained if we close the tool and reopen it again. We would like the ab...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration