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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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Cognos Analytics

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Support for Oracle context index accessed via "contains" operator

Would like reporting to be able to pick up and utilise an Oracle context index via the CONTAINS operator. Currently, Report Studio (and Query Studio) will convert a CONTAINS in the where clause to a LIKE, throwing away this Oracle feature.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Providing more easy way about mapping of Dimension Alias Name and Locale

When we use TM1 cube as BI data source,we need to map Dimension Alias Name and Locale in Meta Data Wizard of FWM.If there are many dimensions,it is hard to set up them.So the customer want more easy way for setting up it.(Importing from csv etc...)
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI When a conditional palette is created, their is a option to show conditional palette values as legend. The problem is that the legend appears two times, in the default legend and the conditi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow a backup Notification server in Cognos Configuration

Allow an administrator to set a backup notification mail server. When the mail server is down for any reason, all notifications from the BI server go into 'Waiting' status. You also are unable to use Event Studio to trigger a notification to an ad...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TOP 10 - workspace advance

Top count functionality gives incorrect results with TM1 as source (after use function loses crosstab context).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Value filter's background color cannot be modified in Cognos Workspace

There is no capability built into Cognos Workspace to be able to modify the Select Value filter's background color or to have it pickup the background color from the Workspace. This is true for either the check box style (check box remains white) ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstab

Reporting: Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstabBe able to determine with a report function if we are in the last row or/and column of a list or a crosstab of a physical PDF page in order ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos CM Tool enhancement

Currently CM Tool is working with only LDAP/AD authentication. Can add OIDC authentication or CAM Password authentication in CM Tool.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

FrameWork Manager 10.2.2 - Import metadata

## English VersionWith Cognos FrameWork Manager 10.2.2, we import Teradata views in DQM mode.The response times are very long.We analyze the queries sent to Teradata. The query (in the use case) lasts longer than 4 min 30s.It uses tables systems :...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration