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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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Show date the cube was updated in Workspace Advanced

our customer want to see the cube updated on date in Workspace Advanced - as this is possible in Report Studio and Analysis Studio
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Remove restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Relative date enhancement

In K-12 and Higher education organizations, we have terms. Would like to be able to setup a term to be able to compare it like current month to previous month, using a concept like relative dates.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide a nested crosstab column

In crosstab report " box type " property is "none " is applied on nested data items in column but not on their parents. See APAR PI30191I
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Default for language selection listbox when override the default report properties

When the checkbox «Override the default values» is checked in the report properties panel, the format and the language must be specify. we don't want specifcy the language. Only the format must be specify. The language must depends to the user p...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations

There is no way to translate Report Studio query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations (no report language variable, no additional options). Automatic summary elements only have one name too ("summary (measure)"). Regardless of the langua...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration