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 Analytics

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Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Not under consideration

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow use of wildcards in Search requests

Allow use of wildcard characters in "search" text strings. The allowable characters could emulate those defined by Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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