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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.

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: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

[Enh| Use of Web Fonts in IBM Cognos

Client would like to see IBM Cognos enhanced to be able to support the use of web fonts like those provided by Google.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Axis range behaves differently with and without the repeater table

The client has an active report (problematic report.txt) with master-detail relationship. A drop down list is contained in the master query. A chart inside a data deck is defined inside the detail query. In this report the client has the option of...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Automatic Active Report axes scaling

In RAVE it is currently possible to set the properties of a value field so that the scale of the corresponding axis will always resize in accordance with the data if it is filtered by an Active Report variable. If you have more than one value fiel...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Need the ability to format nested column chart categories on the axis using different colors or fonts or an identifier

Need the ability to format nested column chart categories on the axis using different colors or fonts or an identifier
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Improve visualization of time-series data in Cognos 10

Properties of Cognos are very limited when it comes to visualization of time-series data. Cognos allows only fixed intervals between measurements instead of having actual true time intervals. Due to this limitation an exponential increase of follo...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manual setting of Y-Axis Range is broken in Advanced Charting Engine

The manual setting of Y-Axis Range is broken in Advanced Charting Engine (not Legacy). When the Y-Axis Range is changed if you run the report you will see that the change does not apply to the report.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Improve rendering time for charts

Rendering time for charts in Report Studio reports has increased with IBM Cognos BI Version 10.x in comparison to rendering time with IBM Cognos BI Version 8.x. For management dashboards and reports it is absolutely evident to have the same or fas...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vector graphics from RAVE visualizations

GfK needs to be able to access vector graphic based chart outputs from RAVE visualizations in the Cogons content store. These files can either be added to the content store or replace the currently existing bitmap files.With these scalable vector ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration