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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Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Extend filter name cutoff in report creation

A user opening a report might want to look at the query details and quickly see exactly what is going on in the report. However, because the filter names seem to have a 50 char limit on the display, nearly every filter built into a data module is ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search feature with a "Value Prompt"

Allow user to have search feature with a "Value Prompt".
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Styles Not Working in Crosstab Intersection Totals

Grand totals are not being hidden in crosstabs with conditional styles, while column headers, details, and subtotals are being hidden. This is true with DQM packages - according to Cognos Support, it also happens in CQM packages with both subtotal...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Validate Reports Administratively after Model or Data Module Update

As an administrator/developer, we would like to have the ability to administratively validate/save reports after updating the source metadata model package or data module. At present, owners of reports have to be notified when a model/data module ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data Server and Data Source Connection Management

To add on to: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013646 Under the "Admin Classic UI," I see both Data Server and Data Source Connections. With a couple of hundred Analytics Users who will likely create a few Data Server Connectio...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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