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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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Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Hyperlinks Directly Embedded on CA Dashboard

We would like to embed hyperlinks on the dashboard so we can have a direct link for our users to click into. We have thousands of records with unique identifiers linking them back to our CRM platform. It would be a lot easier to embed a hyperlink ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Planned for future release

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2

Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

User-Friendly Data or Event Alert Tool

Please add the ability to send an email or SMS alert based on a user-defined trigger, like a data-based alert. Have it send alerts or run + send reports to email or mobile device. The legacy Event Studio tool has more than enough functionality - b...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted