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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Clustered Bar Chart Doesn't Include Annotations

In the Reporting development environment in the 11.0.10-13 environments, the "new" Clustered Bar chart visualization does not include the Annotations property. We would like to display the value of the bars being displayed. This functionality is i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Measure Icon on Fact Query subjects in Report Studio and Query Studio as in Framework Manager

If Report Studio and Query Studio display measure icon at the query subject level would be easy to differentiate between facts and dimensions. Framework Manager does display measure icon (scale icon) for the query subjects apart from actual measur...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hiding the Data Server type in Cognos 11

Customizing the Data Server Type list from Data Server List in Portal . I would like to delete/Deactivate the Data Server list from manage menu which are not required
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add to the display when you mouse over a data point on a Line Graph on a Dashboard the number of occurrences of the metric that were used to get the summarized value.

We have a Line Graph on a Cognos Analytics Dashboard. The x-axis are Dates We have a metric that falls in one of 3 categories. In the Dashboard UI, I created 4 variables to hold the numbers for each category and 1 for all numbers for all categorie...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Hidden Query related issue

A Report Studio report contains hidden query items. Is it possible to export to CSV and not show the hidden columns? Please see this technote as a workaround. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hidden-query-items-appear-csv I wrote PMR ## Response ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

drill through not working in saved active reports

In Cognos 11.0.11, when you run an active report in the background and save the reportversion, the drill through links in the report do not work. They only work when the active report is run interactively. This is related to PMR ID 24579227000.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Sending SMS Message to users mobile from Cognos BI

Hi Team: We would like to send a text message to users mobile devises (mobile recipients) to tell the user that a report is available or not whenever job fails. Currently there isn't a way to send a text message to the mobile recipient in existing...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encript passwords in Configuration export

Password(hashed) in Cognos configuration is visible in Cognos configuration export. Need to create option to hide/encrypt passwords entered in Cognos configuration when exporting configuration to a file
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration