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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Cognos Analytics

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Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Customize the shape of plots On Maps

Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Image Service should be supported on Windows/docker as production environment

Most of our customers run Cognos products on Windows, nor do they have any Unix/Linux system at all.From customer's perspective the setup of a separate Linux/Docker environment to get new visualizations into PDF output means an 'excessive' effort....
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Ability to control interactive mode on list/charts/crosstabs level

Although the new interactive mode is a great enhancement it is only possible to switch it on/off on the report level. When it is activated all data containers are interactive (charts/lists/crosstabs) giving the user all capabilities available. We ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration