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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.

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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Reuse Conditional Styles Across Queries

Would like to be able to reuse condiional styles across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Document Enhancement - Reuse Conditional Styles

Please add to current documentation that a single conditional style cannot be used across queries.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Active Filters on Dashboard

Would be useful to switch on/off a view of any active filters on a Dashboard. Or incorporate active filters into title of visualisation.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) and Cognos Analytics 11.0.5

The possibility to have SSO through IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 and IBM Cognos Controller 10.3 (FP1) Please, refer to PMR 89455,211,788.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to manage Notifications for individual users

Users have set Alerts via "Alert me about new versions" on Reports. The only Admin Tool available in the UI is "Do not alert any about new versions" - this will remove all active Alerts.An option is required to remove individual Users from the Ale...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request to add Excel 2013 as an output type in Run Report Options

When running a report, we currently have Excel 2007,Excel 2007 (data), Excel 2002 as report output formats.Customer is expecting a new format: Excel 2013 to be added to these report output types. note: I have raised this request on behalf of custo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration