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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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ENH: add the abilty to add Report Viewer GUI elements for certain user groups

At the moment it is only possible to hide Report Viewer elemnts system wide (by editing system.xml). It is a requirement that some elemnts are only visible to some user groups.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'.

Client Esri: Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'. When running a report Cognos forces the browser to use 'IE 5 Quirks mode' (called 'Quirks mode' in IE 8 and 9 and 'IE 5 Quirks mode' in IE 10 and 11). This c...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH : Prompt : Add a select all option in tree prompts

When we want to display all elements of a hierarchy from a tree prompt we have to click them one by one which is very time consuming and generates a lot of clicks. We would like the possibility to select all displayed elements. It is closed to the...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Cognos install kits to include installation option with user defined backup location

This is an enhancement for future Cognos products install kits to have an installation option with user defined backup location. Installer kit in 10.2.x versions does not give users an option to define their own backup folder location during insta...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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....
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Function of row highlighting in list

Customer want a function of row highlighting function in list as well as current column body highlighting.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists