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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Use geospatial functions on geodata type without making a SQL Table in Data module

We want to use spatial functions with spatial data type in informix in a datamodule. We have a lot of tables containing a spatial data type. We want it to have it like in framework manager. DEV TS005539448: I got a response from dev team and there...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A widgets in dashboarding, in which data item should always be returned in complete

I want to make a diagram. On the X-as I want ALL the months of a year. As a measure I want the number of Invoices (as an example). Nowadays a month doesn't appear when there are no Invoices in that month. Still, I want to keep seeing the month on ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tranformer Enhancement

I'm unable use a data module in to the cube. We want to import an excel and merge it with a package and use it as source or a report created from it as source but i could not import such report/package designed from data module?
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics on Cloud Office support

Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud - on demand subscriptions don't support Microsoft Office cognos add-in . Our customers need to integrate some reports into their ms word based annual reports.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide greater navigation in report studio

In version 10 we could right click on a list object and navigate to the query behind. Now we have to user a few more clicks to get to this in a no so direct way.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration