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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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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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View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQM Query Execution Time Limit

Implement a governor to limit the execution time of DQM Queries, since currently there is no governor that applies to DQM Queries, as per documentation and feedback from PMR 07802,499,000. The customer VF Services (9446150) has a business requirem...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Quick Reference Customization

Being able to use the Quick Reference a adjust the contents and links underneath after designing my own extension and theme.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Edit Font Size of Data Labels in a Dashboard

Currently the data labels in a dashboard default to a font size which can be very small and hard for users to read. It would be very helpful to have the ability to change the font size of the data labels in addition to being able to toggle them of...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration