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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.

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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Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recover from bad cookies during login process

Refer to case #TS000127886 and TS000083033 When Cognos Analytics encounters a bad cookie (in this case created by SecureAuth ... the cookie name has spaces in it), it acts like it got a good cookie which it was not able to use, and informs the use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Install Documentation - Add on for "system.web/httpRuntime"

Hello,I request an add-on to the install documentation.I woul'd like to expand the point 6 of the following description : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/t_gateway_iis.html. The ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration