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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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Cognos Analytics

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Enh: looking to have a free form text box prompt which can be displayed on the report as typed

Currently the multi-line text box prompt allows for the key to be entered when typing in the box but the output of this parameter does not show them Carriage returns are replaced by spaces so what is typed into the box does not match the output on...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve drill up/down performance when using new chart authoring and DQM

One of our users is requesting to improve drill up/down performance when using; 1. New chart authoring.2. Dynamic Query Mode.3. Master-Detail relation ship. 4. The chart are inserted into the list column. We have no way to gain good performance cu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 bitemporal/temporal table query

The client has the follow query set up with bitemporal table:SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEEFOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF '2013-05-24 08:17:21.000000' The query is for a simple DB2 v10 DB that actually ends up querying a EMPLOYEE_HISTORY table. This is due to the ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize Button Bar and Button Label in Active Reports

Looking to add in additional functionality for customization of Active Report elements. Client is looking to be able to add a background colour to the Button Bar and the Button Label.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a control that automatically cycles through the possible values for an Active Report variable

Add a control that automatically cycles through the possible values foran Active Report variable either repeatedly or a single time. Thiswould be useful for animating a visualization over a time series usinga RAVE visualization with a transition a...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active report to have Select ALL without Default Data Card included.

Select All when defined in Data drop down list as ""No Value List Item"" will work if we define Default Data card and drap the charts or list again to this default card. Customers requirement to have Select All to work without setting Default Data...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request - Container Filter in Active Reports

This is an enhancement request in Container Filter of Active Reports. There should be an option that provides a way to replicate that filter in another object.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When filtering Active Reports the List Header vanishes

If within a Active Report a Container filter is used the List Header vanishes after the first filtering.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: unable to create a tooltip for a datapoint in charts

In Report Studio it is unable to create a tooltip for a static datapoints in charts. Please enable this functionality in Report Studio.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Down/Drill Up on List/X-Tab report does not apply conditional formatting in Business Insight

When drilling down or drilling up in a list/x-tab report the conditional formatting is applied when the report is run in ReportStudio. The same report when added to a dashboard in Business Insight does not apply the conditional formatting. Relevan...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration