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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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Auto Refresh Reports

The ability to easily set a report to automatically refresh every x seconds/ minuets /hours The actual time between refreshes should be configurable. This could be as a property of the report, and apply to all data in the report, a property of the...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Missing option to set globally the default portal action on objects like reports and report views

We want to be able to switch globally the default option on objects like reports and report views to "run the report" instead of "view most recent report" under object advanced properties tab.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add OLAP as a data source for Data Module

When I create a data module and add an OLAP data source such as an MSAS cube package or a Powercube, no dimensions or measures are available to add to the data module. This is related to another PMR where the solution was to create a navigation gr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module: Report query execution method

Displaying prompt pages using data modules takes a lot of time, as prompt queries are only run sequential. Similarly this also applies to reports using multiple queries.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration