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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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scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cognos analytics cube designer issue case # TS001585275

Hi, Cognos analytics cube designer not supporting aggregate function like max,min.We are trying to use the min,max function in cube designer but the options are not available to use. Thanks, Sakti
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

When deleting a deployment in Admin, delete the file in OS

When a deployment is deleted from within cognos, the deployment archive is not deleted from the operating system.Since Cognos can create the archive, it should optionally delete it as well.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for Session Management

ISSUE:Session Management OBSERVATION :Session is not terminating on closing the browser RATING :LOW DESCRIPTION :Application is not terminating the session on closing the browser. We were able to render the page and use the session to access the u...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration