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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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Cognos Analytics

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Dynamic setup PDF page - New pdf feature/property that allows the report created using page set when run PDF for certain criteria to appear on the pdf page without causing too much white space at the bottom of pages when there is less data - which occurs when set a static page size for the output

This property will automate the data generation. Currently, for each server that we want to generate data, we have to enter in the report in editing mode and change the PDF page setup property to then run the report (run PDF) and change the proper...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Images does not contain Accessible Name (508 Compliance)

Element with no accessible name: Image does not contain an accessible name. This would cause a screen reader to not be able to read off this element. Ask: Can you add an assessible name to the element? Similar issue was raised for PMR long back...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Open option to change the home perspective for folder URL (share option).

We would like to have option to change the perspective for folder URL under the option 'share' for folders. Now it is not possible to change it and popup the folder under different perspective.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Certification for WebSeal (ISAM)

Cognos Analyticss 11 certification for WebSeal.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom shapes to be used in reports as well

Customs shapes can be used in dashboards. Would be nice to have them available in reports as well.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard

Repeater like charts creation is not available in the dashboard, data driven number of charts - repeater like functionality, like exist in report
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration