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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    add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

    When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    current_date or current_timestamp Cognos Functions Enhancement to enable Query to be re-used for DQM mode

    When current_date or current_timestamp is used, query reuse is disabled since the values for those functions would need to be cached to allow reuse. Since the cashed value might not be the same as the current value it is considered a data integrit...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Microsoft Office 2019

    Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

    Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

    You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

    Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

    Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    dashboard conditional formatting

    The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

    In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

    Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

    In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

    Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

    PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

    As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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