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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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RHEL SELinux Support required for Cognos Analytics

At this time SELinux is not a supported configuration for Cognos Analytics. Our internal default policy has changed with Redhat 7 and by default SELinux is activated. We would need Cognos Analytics to follow the default policies from Redhat 7 SELi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key

Link Finish/run button to the [Enter]-key Set up [Enter]-key to be linked to the Finis/Run button to apply adjusted filter conditions without having to click on the button. Purpose: Better user experience, eliminate unneccesary scrolling.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

When docking the interactive toolbar, the toolbar should not be on separate row.

When docking the toolbar, the tollbar should no longer be on a separate row but instead be moved to the topbar (next to HTML). Purpose/Advantage: Creates more space for report content
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Missing feature in Cognos Analytics Report that was present in the Legacy Query Studio

As our organization looks to transition out of Query Studio (QS), one of our users pointed out a missing feature in the new Report Interface. When filtering on dates in QS, they have been using a nifty feature called ‘Last Number of Days’ filter w...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Query Service and Content Administration Task Status Notifications

As an administrator, I would like the ability to be notified via e-mail of the completion status for scheduled query service and content administration tasks. Scenario #1: Dynamic Cubes member/data cache refreshes are performed by a scheduled quer...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release