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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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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

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

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

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

Limiting the error mail only to report owner incase of SMTP error in report schedule [CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410]

Problem: - The error mail is sent to all recipients added in schedule When there a report schedule failed due to SMTP error (CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410). Example: - I have scheduled an analysis studio report on daily basis at 9:00 AM. So daily I w...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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 include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration