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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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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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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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report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Include Null Filter Works Strangely

I have a report with two columns in a list: Period Year and Month and Charges. At the top of the list is correctly a row for which the timeframe is empty (because the period has not been close yet for those entries). When I add a filter to the rep...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration