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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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Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need an ability to set our own color to a specific value in treemap color by value visualization

currently the Tree map color by value visualization will represent the colors based on values in the map. but if we want specify a particular color to a specific value for example "white" color "zero 0" value there is no way.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Mobile: Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser

We are unable to view the Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser (not from cognos mobile app) from Mobile.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Output should allow for alternate XML formats

XML output format does not provide for the tag names and cannot be used for import to other applications. Currently, the only option is to export to cvs and then create a program to parse the data. This defeats the purpose of providing XML as a re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Unavailability of 'Save the report as a report view' option for Delivery in Jobs

We could not find an option called "Save the report as a report view" in Analytics View to save the report as a report view for a report in the job from the report properties, so we are unable to view the report details from the Job when a report ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Samples installer containing all Cognos samples

Currently there are a few sources for cognos samples. We would like to have one single installer for all cognos samples. From the installer it should be possible to select the required samples like Transformer Cubes, Dynamic Cubes, new CA samples ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add same table multiple times as role playing dimensions in data module

In the data modelling component, it should be possible to add the same table in multiple times to be able to create a datamart with roleplaying dimensions.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration