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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.

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Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization

Stacked bar chart visualization is highly used to show absolute dollars. Ability to add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization will allow an effective visual to show period to period changes across the absolute numbers, as an example
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Case of letters in objects paths

There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Style Dropper

In reporting, there is a 'Pick up style options dropper' which per the documentation is used to copy the formatting of items in the report such as fonts, colors, borders etc. and apply the formatting to other items. I would like to see the same fu...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Adding images to reports and dashboards

Currently only administrators can upload images.Anyone making a report should be able to upload images . Just like all the other BI tools out there
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration