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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

View 'Members Tree' on Dashboard tool for Dimensional datasources

We have many Transformer cubes and we want to use them as a Datasource on the dashboard tool. This works fine but the fact is that there are several manual categories created in the cube dimensions. We need to use those categories to create dashbo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enhance Focus Mode On Dashboard Widgets

When viewing individual widgets on a dashboard you should be able to go into full Focus Mode enlarging that widget to the full size of the screen.Similar to capabilities in Microsoft Power BI.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

ability to lock a dashboard or view only mode

Within our company, we have many power users with strong analytical skills that are making dashboards for key managers and decision makers. However, these dashboards cannot be locked and many individuals have changed an analysts work without even ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Change a package associated to a report

In 10.2.2 and before, you could click on the report properties and update the package a report points to. In Cognos 11, it appears you cannot do that, unless you load the classic view (Cognos Connection). This makes moving or copying multiple item...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Unable to update axis titles on dashboards

Unable to edit or transform axis titles on dashboard. Need to be able to change axis titles and allow for the ability to define the look of the axis labels. Can't define horizontal vs vertical vs 45 degree angle. Best viewing of axis labels change...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Delivered