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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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Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Except, < and > filter in Dashboards

I have lots of customer requirements for dashboards which are type of “show values for all vendors except one special” or “Give me all customers with revenue greater than $ xyz”. There’s no good way in achieving this kind of filtering in dashboard...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration