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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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Simplify fixes and enhancements to be installed and onfigured as a patch or fix pack, not as the entire version

In the last two upgrades it has been very time consuming and frustrating to apply the product and then test and then if issue install and configure the next in all instances being a distributed env. We have a total of 45 most of them in the webser...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

More options to modify axes in a dashboard

The new dashboarding function in Cognos Analytics has limited customization for charts. In particular, it would be useful to be able to: 1. Hide the axis title for each axis individually2. Change the color of the axes, axis titles, and labels
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for new Japanese imperial era name

Japanese imperial era name will be changed within near future.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-announce-new-imperial-era-name-summer-2018/#.WaYIHGdSCIs Cognos BI 10.2.x products supports Japanese i...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Deginating My Content location during import

During the upload process files are just dumped into "My Content", then you have to use the Copy or Move function.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Gantt chart visualization tool tip should show start and finish date of BAR

When using standard visualization of Gantt chart, it is not displaying proper dates in tool tip.Currently it shows no. of days since 01/01/1970.Suppose the start date is : 21/07/2015Tooltip will show : Number of days = 21/07/2015 - 01/01/1970 Expe...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Query Execution with Report Tabs

When utilizing report tabs feature all queries must validate and execute before content can be delivered. It would be better if each tab could validate and execute individually to server content quicker.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Exploration support for calculations in Starting Points

Currently, Explore cannot support calculations in Starting Points. This would be very useful as a lot of the benefit from Data Modules comes from the ability to easily merge data sources together and create calculations from the resulting table. I...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Easy Grouping / Binning of values

Easy Grouping / Binning of values: this is already possible in the data module but request is to make this also possible in the user interface of the dashboard module
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

RS 10.2.2 fix Save icon (floppy) always looks dim. color it when save needed

The current save icon in Report studio always looks dim to me. Other icons will be dim (grey) or colored depending if its applicable or not. IE when working with a query, filter icon (and icons to right) are all dimmed. When working with a reporti...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered