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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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Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics dashboard

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Retain Filter Preferences per User Login in Cognos Dashboards

Currently, users must manually reapply their preferred filters each time they log in or refresh the dashboard. Allowing Cognos to retain user’s last selected filters based on their loginID would save time, improve efficiency, and create a more per...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted