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


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Cognos Analytics

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Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get notification (toaster) when Dataset and/or Job has finished loading (even if started as part of a job)

If user subscribes to the notification the toaster is notifying "Dataset loaded" and or "Job xxx finished" it sticks until closed by user. Really the feedback for a job finished successfully is lousy and the timestamp for datasets is not always in...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the speed for Excel import in Cognos For MS Office

To display in MS Excel, some list reports ran in Excel format take four to five time longer than ran in Excel data.We know that import format is not the same (CSV Vs. LDX) but it would be great if the speed could be improved
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Resizable windows Drill-through Definition in Report Studio

As a report developer I often need to open existing drill-through definitions, explore and edit parameter mapping. When report contains more than 9 parameters (the most of my enterprise customer reports), I have to scroll down / up for display all...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Delay in logging of CM-REQ-2xxx messages in cogserver.log file

The cogserver.log file take long time to get updated with CM-REQ-2299 and CM-REQ-2300 messages, when export/import operations are performed through trigger.sh utility
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule reports during Certain Days of Month

We were looking for a ability to schedule the reports within a range of a month, like 1st to 10th of each month. Currently in Scheduling options we have either to run 1st day or 2nd day of the month, but could not specify range.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration