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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.

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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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions

Cognos11 DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions.Right now the data model does not allow role playing.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

CA11 WebBased Modelling - JDBC Connections / SignOns will be not sorted

In reporting, the user may be shown various connections for selection. These connections are in alphabetical order. If JDBC connections are used, they are not displayed sorted. This concerns Web-based modelling. JDBC connections should be displaye...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add BoxPlot to available Dashboard/Story Visualization options

The BoxPlot is an available visualization option in report studio but has yet to make its way over to the Dashboard tool. We would like to use this visualization in multiple dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration