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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Eliminate Cognos Mobile App Single Point of Failure

Re-enable the Cognos Mobile app to communicate with Cognos Analytics through a load balancer (ACE/F5). Reference IBM Case #TS000101959
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Disabled alerts are not in keyboard tab order

Disabled elements in the report or dashboard (example zooming pecentage option) are not in the keyboard tab order. Zoom button is disabled on all the dashboard. Previously a ticket have been logged for this issue to IBM. IBM Responded "This is dis...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration