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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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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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Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Cognos 11 Report Context filter not passed to Related link

In Cognos 11, the user has been using the context filter value to pass value to the related links drill through. But in the report output the passed context filter value is not getting reflected.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enhanced Table Filtering: Default filter with Override Capability

Description: Currently, tables in IBM Maximo display all data by default, requiring users to manually filter records each time they access a table. To enhance usability, there should be a feature where tables are initially filtered by a predefined...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Needs more information

Enabling Interactivity Across Multiple Containers in a Report

By enabling interactivity across these containers, actions taken in one container (like selecting a data point) can dynamically influence the content and display of another container on the same report canvas. When a user selects a data point or a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration