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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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ENH: Improve rendering time for charts

Rendering time for charts in Report Studio reports has increased with IBM Cognos BI Version 10.x in comparison to rendering time with IBM Cognos BI Version 8.x. For management dashboards and reports it is absolutely evident to have the same or fas...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manual setting of Y-Axis Range is broken in Advanced Charting Engine

The manual setting of Y-Axis Range is broken in Advanced Charting Engine (not Legacy). When the Y-Axis Range is changed if you run the report you will see that the change does not apply to the report.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Need the ability to format nested column chart categories on the axis using different colors or fonts or an identifier

Need the ability to format nested column chart categories on the axis using different colors or fonts or an identifier
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Automatic Active Report axes scaling

In RAVE it is currently possible to set the properties of a value field so that the scale of the corresponding axis will always resize in accordance with the data if it is filtered by an Active Report variable. If you have more than one value fiel...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clarify Disabling Core Files for UNIX

Our documentation gives steps on disabling core files on a Windows environment. The docs however do not specify that these steps only apply to Windows nor are the steps for UNIX provided. http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/documentatio...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[ENH] Request Command Block example for SQL Server

The customer would like to have command block examples for SQL server and not just DB2 and Oracle. If possible make some for SQL server and Teradata.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Single documentation about how to creat an external object store

A colleague from AVP complains about our documentation about creating an external object store. Today you have to collect some information from the Install & Config Guide another part from the Admin & Security Guide and the rest from a TN ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request to add more detailed platform requirements into the install documentation

On platforms like Unix there are more and more specific ""tuning"" variables that should go into installation documentation rather then be included only in tuning documents
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[ENH] Make clear the zOS part of install/upgrade documentation

We want to upgrade our Cognos installation on Linux from 10.2 to 10.2.1In the installation manual for 10.2.1 there is mentioned that there isa database update needed for the contentstore on DB2 zOS(tablespaceUpgrade_db2zOS.sql).According to our DB...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

[DOC] Missing upgrade information regarding queue tables.

We have been advised that there is no requirement to bring the existing NC tables during an upgrade as the system would resynchronize them anyway. Given that there is a requirement for the queue tables to be empty it's probably better not to use t...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration