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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Predefined trigger name via drop down list

It is possible to set a trigger name for scheduling reports via external trigger. This trigger name is a text input box and should be configurable for predefined values to ensure correct naming. Until version 11.1.5. with a unsupported customizati...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REST API: Content Ancestors

Objects returned by /api/v1/modules include an ancestors object, making it simple to identify the location of the data module. Please provide an ancestors object for objects returned by /api/v1/modules/<storeID>, /api/v1/content/<storeID&...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability for Cognos to integrate with Analytics Content Hub

We would like to have the ability for Cognos Analytics in CP4D to integrate with Analytics Content Hub. ACH has the ability to integrate with stand alone CA but not CA in CP4D. We would like to have the integration with CP4D and the Cognos Service.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration