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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Option to show % and number on the charts

HR users would like to use this functionality to present the reports to Upper management to make the right decisions. Right now, the charts either show % or number. There is no option to show both.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Do not apply a non-null alt attribute to an image with role="presentation" or role="none"

The graphical image has alternative text as well as role = "presentation".An Image with presentation role or with a role of none must have a null alt attribute.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of Time Intervals in Visualizations

The v8 graphs allow us to use Time Intervals as a measure in a graph or chart. The visualizations from v11 don't allow that. I'm still using v8 grahics as a result. Reference TS004125122.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace.

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace. And this namespace is created with Open ID Connect.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Custom SQL updating Existing Query Subject with new changes to the SQL

Hello Team, We have found some new issue in 11.1.7 , in fact we observed this in 11.1.6 as well. The issue is with updating the SQL query in Cognos report queries using Custom SQL option. When users are trying to update their queries using custom ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a flag to enable or disable Legacy administration console

currently if you are part of administrator role you have access to legacy administration console portal. However most of the features needed are available under Manage from 11.1.5 onwards so we want to hide this legacy console from our users.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WEX AC official support to MS2016

Currently, WEXAC is only officially supported up to MS2010. However, the majority of users use MS2016 as their data source. In its current state, you should officially support MS2016, as you will not be able to get support from the developer in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration