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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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11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add Scope as filter in the GUI on Past Activities

We no longer allow our end users monitor their schedules from the administration console. Instead, they now use the option from the GUI accessible from either "My schedules and subscriptions" or "Manage-Activities". In both latter cases, they have...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to calculation a summary value for calculated ratios based on calculations and not by average in Dashboard

If we create any ratio calculations in the dashboard by default the resulting value is summed up, which is wrong. Also, if we change the summary property to average then it is giving a value which is nearly right but we are not getting the exact v...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

ParamDisplayValue() doesn't display when a default is set and the report is sent over a schedule

Our product reports use in-report value prompts. when configuring the value prompt, we are setting the Use Value and the Display Value. For some prompts we then set a default value for the Use Value. We are then trying to use a ParamDisplayValue()...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance handling of responses received for XHR requests by App.-Server - CUG2026

Testcase: * Login and use the portal * Shutdown App.-Server or loose network connection * Click on portalitem Depending on the product in use (administration, report editor, dashboard, portal, navigation pane, ...) => results in technical err m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create Dashboard Filter using static, user defined values

In Dashboarding, we would like the ability to have a Filter that contains user defined, static values without having to create a Data Module. We would also like the ability to add logic to the filter selection.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration