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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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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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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.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enrichment - De-enrichment of items in package

Currently, if you include something from a package for enrichment and later decide that you want it removed because it was report specific item that was include into package instead of general, there is no way to remove it from enrichment. You c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Cognos Tool Behavior and Email Notifications for Scheduled Reports

Currently, we have configured scheduled reports to be automatically generated and emailed to designated recipients at specific intervals. While this feature greatly enhances our workflow efficiency, we have noticed a behavior that we believe could...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration