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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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ENH: Add option to combine package filter in Cognos Workspace Advanced

Currently you can add package filter to a Cognos Workspace Advanced report. Customer would like to combine package filter with 'And' or 'Or' but this is currently not possible. Customer requests this as a new feature.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Ability to set different burst options for recipents within one report

Example: client has a report which is set to burst to two groups of people using their CAM ID: support and sales. Sales options: save the report and send to mobile. Support options: only to save to Cognos connection. Client is running the report t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to create new Toolbox items for Workspace Advanced

In Report Studio we have the ability to add items to the Toolbox. The client would like to see the same functionality extended to Workspace Advanced.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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