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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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Cognos Analytics

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Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orientation / Portrait : possibility to dynamically change without duplicating report pages

Today when we want to allow the user to launch the report either in portrait or landscape, we need to create our own prompt and to duplicate report pages in Report Studio to apply 2 different PDF PAGE Setup on each of our 2 report pages.Would it b...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add list for measures in dashboard

We would like to drag multiple measures in the layout and have a list to filter the content like sales units, forecasted units,....so that users can select which one to use in chart.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix the Cognos Mashup Services (CMS) so that they can render/retrieve the newer Cognos Analytics (CA) visualization objects

We used to use CMS to embed CA content within our own web pages. Specifically we would use CMS to retrieve report parts, assigning a name within the report design and then using that name to retrieve the HTML fragment through CMS. CMS still works,...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Url to run reprots from Sharepoint in the cloud enhancemetn

When a report is published the SharePoint cloud and passing a userid and pw with the parameters does not work in the cloud. This works on prem but not in the cloud. See case TS002005281 and TS003114744. The reports run sometime and when they do, i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to deactivate the export functionalities within PowerPlay Studio for specific User

We want to disable the exporting functionality for a specific user or group in cognos analytics (PowerPlay Studio).
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration