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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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Additional graph options for matrix graphs (repeating columns/rows)

When repeating on rows or columns there should be an option to have the axis labels appear only for the first instance. Repeating using a measure group should give us an option to have each value axis have it's own scale and formatting options. In...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Is a defect

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Banner Update on IGC Asset Page

IGC homepage that we see after logging in. Highlighted in yellow is what we have been able to customize for State Street with the options in the administration tab. We would like to know how the section highlighted in red or blue can be customized...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted