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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Customize Button Bar and Button Label in Active Reports

Looking to add in additional functionality for customization of Active Report elements. Client is looking to be able to add a background colour to the Button Bar and the Button Label.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to insert a member property without 'Insert a Member Property' dialog

When we insert a member property into a crosstab on Cognos Workspace Advanced 'Insert a Member Property' dialog is displayed and we can see 2 options. One is 'Insert property only' and other is 'Insert property and group it'. But the second option...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH - generate Excel Sort/filter arrows at run time of report in Cognos

My customers need an excel report generated with the excel sort/filter arrows generated at run time.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 bitemporal/temporal table query

The client has the follow query set up with bitemporal table:SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEEFOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF '2013-05-24 08:17:21.000000' The query is for a simple DB2 v10 DB that actually ends up querying a EMPLOYEE_HISTORY table. This is due to the ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve drill up/down performance when using new chart authoring and DQM

One of our users is requesting to improve drill up/down performance when using; 1. New chart authoring.2. Dynamic Query Mode.3. Master-Detail relation ship. 4. The chart are inserted into the list column. We have no way to gain good performance cu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Prompt API - Tree prompt support required.

Customer is using the new Prompt API with a tree control. They need to use setValues() to add specific values to a control and it does not work properly. setValues() rather picks all selected values instead of specific ones. getValues(true) does n...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enh: looking to have a free form text box prompt which can be displayed on the report as typed

Currently the multi-line text box prompt allows for the key to be entered when typing in the box but the output of this parameter does not show them Carriage returns are replaced by spaces so what is typed into the box does not match the output on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt API: Add Group-Based Validation

Customer would like to see group validation API added to IBM Cognos BI Prompt API. Currently it's possible to assign an validator to a single prompt field but in order to ensure that a combination of values is valid there needs to be a number of s...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt page issue when a user makes a selection on a value prompt

Making a selection in a value prompt on the prompt page causes the page to refresh and the control goes to the top of the page. When using a screen reader the tab key must be used to navigate back to the value prompt.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PRS-NOP-1056 error using tree prompt with multiple datasource connections

Client has datasource with multiple connections. When report is run user must choose one. When there is a tree prompt the datasource prompt is bypassed and the tree is displayed. Expanding the tree causes a PRS-NOP-1056 error. Bug is same as COGCQ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration