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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    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...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

    Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

    Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

    When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

    upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

    Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

    In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

    Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

    The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Scriptable Reports: Support headers, footers, and group spanning when using the setColumnDisplay() method.

    Currently this method doesn't work for custom controls when the list has a header, footer, or group spanned rows. That makes this function/method almost useless when the report has the on demand toolbar enabled. Users that try to aggregate or grou...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    "Select All" Filter Limitation in Reports

    Add the option to Select All after searching for values in a Reports filter or remove the limitation when trying to shift-click a large data set.The limitation seems like a bug, but support from case number TS000955204 said to open a RFE to resolve.
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

    Add/Extend CA REST API endpoint to retrieve groups/roles/capabilities for a specified user

    In the current state, there is no endpoint within the Cognos REST API that allows an administrator to query another user's groups/roles/capabilities. Having this available would be extremely useful as we will have the ability to speed up our suppo...
    over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

    Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
    over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

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