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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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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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Last year, Prev Year in Dynamic Cubes

Hi, Can you please add the functinalitiy from Transfomer to create automatically Last Year, prev year month etc.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization of line thickness on 11.1 visuals

I had ticket open with support to verify that this currently doesn't exist but it would be nice to be able to make the lines on 11.1 Line charts in reports thicker. The default is too thin for some users and there is no way to customize this prope...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules should be user-friendly. More like a Folder tree should be there which can clicked easily. Drill down approach wastes a lot of time.

The Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules feature enhances user experience by introducing an intuitive, clickable folder tree structure. This eliminates the need for time-consuming drill-down approaches, allowing users to quickly access...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Conversion from Cognos 10 to Cognos 11

Provide a tool to convert Cognos 10 Dashboard (created using Cognos Workspace) into Cognos 11 Dashboard. This will allow the editing and enhancement of Cognos 10 Dashboards using the new Cognos 11 Dashboard Studio. A functionality that does not cu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Bulk replace option

Problem: After Selecting Tables from a DB. You want to format and rename some of the labels. Most DB use a _ of other prefixes. For now there is no other GUI option to select multiple items and rename or search and replace texst items like _ or ot...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy users files from Team Content to the users My Content folder

We would like to to be able to copy files from Team Content to a users My Content folder, this was available in Cognos 10. The only option now is to copy from team content to another folder in team content or my own my content folder. Reference ca...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Filters of queries created in Query Studio that are migrated under Report

We are migrating our users from Query studio C10.2.1 to report C11 R11 Filters of Query Studio are migrated under Report as "filterExpression", That could be improved for users because filterExpression do not appear dynamically in the filter.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration