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


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ENH Cognos Report Studio ability to add/change multiple columns when creating calculated aggregation row for list report

Functionality enhancement request for ability to select multiple columns when creating calculated aggregation row for list report in Cognos Report Studio. It should be possible to control if a new row is created or if change would be done on exist...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Provide an option to rerun with blank (cached value) for date prompt

User can delete the default value (today) from date prompt (type:editbox) and run the report with blank param value. However when rerunning the report previously entered parameter value (blank) itself is not cached and back to default (today) agai...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report sharing functionality

Description of Request from customer: ""We currently have 100 Advanced Business Authors and end Septemberwe're going to add additional 50 Business Intelligence Users. This willprovide 150 users with content creation capabilities. The purpose ofthe...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Like to export any report to Excel Data or CSV form

Customer has a complex report with multiple pages that contain crosstabs lists and master detail links that when run to Excel Data do not display an error message but instead gets a blank page. When creating a simple crosstab report and exporting ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add modeling feature to Dynamic Cubes similar to 'weight factors' in TM1

We'd like to have a modeling feature added to Dynamic Cubes similar toweight factors in TM1. Per the TM1 documentation: ""Weight factors determine the contribution of an element to aconsolidation. To express that the Connecticut sales total is a s...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Index Search should show reports a user has created when their username is searched

Client knows that he can filter his search results to see objects owned by particular users. When you search the actual username in the search field however those objects aren't displayed. Client would like to be able to search on objects owned by...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add a warning message if a file is cancelled after it has been ICRE'ed

If a file is ICRE'ed and processed thru the system and items have been thru DISTRIBUTION and the PRESENTMENT has been sent to the posting system CANCELLING a PRESENTMENT can cause several issues. If a warning message that shows that the file has a...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration