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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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New chart feature Required

We are unable to show the percentage and Total Sum in the same chart. The total should be shown on the top and the details will be shown as percentage. The percentage chart shouldn't be 100% stacked.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Revometer/Speedometer Graph

We are beginning to see an increasing demand for the "Revometer" graph from our "non-finance" folks. These customers will automatically disengage with stacked graphs/pie charts etc, which appear to "finance centric".
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedAvgUnique

ConsolidatedAvgUnique( 0, unique-along-dimension-name, cube-name,elem_1, elem_2, . . . ); ConsolidatedAvgUnique calculates the average value of the unique elements for which data points actually exist for the specified consolidation. The unique el...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement request for using Watson Assistant with Tone analyzer

We are currently integrating Tone analyzer with our product. We have a suggestion that from Watson Assistant Dialog flow, you can provide direct support to invoke Tone analyzer. Rather if Watson Assistant itself can have Tone analysis functional...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Missing option to set globally the default portal action on objects like reports and report views

We want to be able to switch globally the default option on objects like reports and report views to "run the report" instead of "view most recent report" under object advanced properties tab.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom Controls to be supported in Prompt Pages

We provide Cognos to our clients and this includes standard reporting templates. Our DQM solution uses a tree prompt against a relational package. The Java takes the tree nodes and converts the syntax to work with a relational filter. Unfortunatel...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change color of Summary label

When I create a summary visualisation in a dashboard (v 11.2.4), there is no way to change the color, font and style of the label (you can only hide it and change the text alignment). One should be able to style the label the same way as the title.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enable Render Variables to hide/show columns for CSV and Excel-Data output format

Currently render variables and formats are completely ignored when executing a report in the output formats CSV and Excel-Data. Especially in cases where using render variables to display and hide complete list columns this would be very helpful. ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration