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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to change label names in pivot tables and cross tabs in Cognos Analytics dashboards

We would like the ability to change the label names in pivot tables and cross tabs in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Consumers being required to have read access for interactive reports has broken our security model

We allow business area authors to develop reports in the production environment. Business area consumers only run reportsBusiness area authors have Report Studio capability, Read, Execute, Traverse to the business area reporting package, and at le...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Bar Chart - allow the user to toggle Measure values between VALUE and Percentage of Color

Assume you have a Dashboard widget which shows a breakdown by Gender. If the requirement is to show values and also Values as a % - we have to create two separate Widgets. The user does have the option to change VISUALIZATION... but it would we...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager: Option to allow "true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation" using conformed dimensions

Framework Manager: Provide an option to allow true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation using conformed dimensions In other words: provide a way to suppress the use of stitch columns in well defined models.PMR: TS001052591
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through on Dashboards on direct click on the section of visualization

To achieve the drill through to the Destination by a single click on part of the visuals and not selecting and then going to visualization box and clicking on Drill through Icon.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration