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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Summary Options Crosstabs in Dashboards

Users need more summary functionality besides just "hide summaries". We want to be set whether to summarize the rows and columns, just the rows, or just the columns. We also want to be able to display the summaries at the top of the columns or beg...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to expand a Package and manipulate the items within that Package when added to a Data Module

In Cognos Analytics you have the ability to add a Package to a Data Module.It would be useful if we could expand the Package down to its Namespaces/Dimensions/Query Subjects/Query Items.Having the package expanded could mean that users would have ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

There is no control over how calculate items are calculated at a summary level as they are in Report Authoring.

I have a problem with a calculated expression on a Dashboard. It works good on all the rows except the last one, where the total value isn't calculated. I also can't format the column as a percentage
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Isolate Cognos image location from custom images

Currently customer custom images are uploaded to ../webcontent/bi/images. This is the same location as where Cognos specific images are stored. Requesting that the Cognos specific images and customer images be saved to independent locations.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Copy or Move reports Search Window

When searching for reports , there is no option to copy or move reports to a different folder. This can be helpful to copy/move reports from a large folders having multiple reports with similar name.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Add/Pin user specific Folder(s) to left navigation bar

Majority of our users are using more than one solution and therefore need access to more than one folder structure constantly. Current possibility to add user role specific folders limits having only one pinned folder. Giving user functionality to...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release