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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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One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Need to add ability to purge (clean) automatically the data from the Output table on a regular basis

Regression from the IA and not in IKC. In IA we can purge (clean) automatically the data from the Output table on a regular basis. But this is not available in IKC.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability for more granular IKC user roles

Today, IKC has administrator, owner or editor roles. At large customers, various users need to perform various tasks and they are very cautious of data security. The customer would like to restrict the quantity of administrators. But some tasks li...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 11 Functionality already exists

In IKC when doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, we need the ability to fetch the asset at the column level.

When doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, it is not possible to fetch the asset at the column level. We can only fetch on table levels.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

In Cognos 12.0.4 IF2, I need to set a default prompt using the new dynamic prompt feature. However, it's not letting me set the value I need. It was determined that this is not a defect since specifying the type of value (caption or MUN) is not a feature of the default parameter feature yet. I was told to submit a request for it to be added as an enhancement for a future release.

Using a report as a dashboard, using a Dynamic Cube, we need to default the dashboard to display the current month of data.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3

Save the Random Effects of Mixed/Multilevel Models

Mixed/multilevel models are used to analyze hierarchical data (e.g., repeated-measures data, “nested” data such as when data is collected from individuals working in teams). Mixed models are able to disentangle variance that occurs among the l...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered

Column Metadata on Overview Tab: Ability to modify the columns of the table view of an asset OR add a classification column to the table view

Currently, the only way to view column level classifications of a table on the Overview Tab is by clicking on each individual row and switching to the governance tab on the pop-up panel. It would be great to be able to view that classification at ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Recent Data Sources for Reports and Dashboards

We miss the functionality of seeing recently used data sources when starting the creation of a new dashboard or report. The user will always need to navigate to the proper location and select the data source. This functionality was available in Co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support request for DBCS column name on Watson Studio dashboards

We are developing our customer's Enterprise Knowledge Platform(EKP) using Watson Studio / Knowledge Catalog etc. As some part of our EKP, we are using Watson Studio dashboards for presenting characteristics of customer's data (AI system activity l...
almost 7 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Autosave feature in Cognos Controller

We would like to request the addition of an Autosave feature in Cognos Controller, particularly when using the Data Entry function (integrated with the Controller Excel link) for entering reported company values. Currently, users experience data l...
over 1 year ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration