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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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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

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Prompt API: getValues() returns undefined if the previously input value was considered invalid

Using Prompt API it is not possible to retrieve a prompt value via getValues() if that prompt is considered invalid. The result is returned undefined which typically stops the entire javascript validation process thus leaving the entire prompt pag...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change default option on prmtGenSelectValueHTML.js

Customer wants to change the default option in the search bar for all users without using any Javascript thus he wants to achieve it by changing the prmtGenSelectValueHTML.js file or any other Cognos files.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Cognos install kits to include installation option with user defined backup location

This is an enhancement for future Cognos products install kits to have an installation option with user defined backup location. Installer kit in 10.2.x versions does not give users an option to define their own backup folder location during insta...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to add ""Total"" to a data-driven Active Report control

Current product functionality does not allow for any additional data items to be added manually to Data driven Active Report controls (such as Data Radio Button Group). Standard reports allow for additional selections in data-driven prompts (i.e. ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration