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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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Cognos Analytics

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On prem DQM cube builds should retrieve data though local network and not through the cloud.

For Cognos Analytics Cloud , the Transformer Cube builds that happen on-prem at the customer should retrieve data using a direct connection to the database instead of retrieving that data through the cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization map - ability hide the lat/long coordinate in the label for a point

Visualization map - ability hide the lat/long coordinate in the label for a point. The lat/long is displayed automatically in the label when hovering over a point. The user want the ability to hide the lat/long in the label.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hebrew translation

Hebrew translation MUST be accompanied with GUI mirroring across all CA GUI.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Place Name Notation in Japanese

About the map of the visualization object, we would like Places and Street names displayed on the map of Japan to be unified in Japanese notation.Currently, Japanese and English notation are mixed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration