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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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Automatic process to apply new template to existing reports

Customer is aware of applying new template to exisitng report by copying xml content from template to report xml but user wants to automatic process or a button in report studio to copying xml content from template toreport xml.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change default image path to relative path

Customer would like to have the ability to change the default image path to a relative path
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lose Conditional formatting when Column is Added to Crosstab

In Cognos Workspace Advanced when creating a report (for example a crosstab) adding a fact column to the report resets any formatting changes made to existing columns in the report. Note when applying the formatting to the ""Crosstab Fact Cells"" ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to create MicroChart at the end of a crosstab

Currently when adding a MicroChart to a Crosstab (to analyze row data) it can only be nested on the left of the Crosstab prior to the measure intersections. The new desired functionality would allow for a MicroChart to be embedded at the end of a ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Down/Drill Up on List/X-Tab report does not apply conditional formatting in Business Insight

When drilling down or drilling up in a list/x-tab report the conditional formatting is applied when the report is run in ReportStudio. The same report when added to a dashboard in Business Insight does not apply the conditional formatting. Relevan...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RAVE - Axis title and labels in tooltip should be different not same

RAVE - Axis title and labels in tooltip should be same Axis title and labels in tooltip are different. For instance X and Y axis titles are ""Failure_Rate/100un"" and ""Vintage Number (bot) Cumulative N_Tested (top)"" respectively whereas tooltip ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enable True numeric baseline which does not only represent one value on an axis

To enable TRUE Numeric Base line (like in excel see attached) based on report calculation which does not only represent one value on an axis like it is in current 10.2.1 version.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pagination for Visualizations.

When adding a regular Chart within the properties there is a pagination option. Customer would like this functionality added for Visualizations as well.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration