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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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There is no control over how calculate items are calculated at a summary level as they are in Report Authoring.

I have a problem with a calculated expression on a Dashboard. It works good on all the rows except the last one, where the total value isn't calculated. I also can't format the column as a percentage
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Isolate Cognos image location from custom images

Currently customer custom images are uploaded to ../webcontent/bi/images. This is the same location as where Cognos specific images are stored. Requesting that the Cognos specific images and customer images be saved to independent locations.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add data format properties from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 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

Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use Measure String Elements grouping (group by for numeric data) in List, Cross Tabs, Charts PA as Source data

While using Planning Analytics Cube as source over REST API call, if we have a measure dimension with string elements or picklist elements these elements can also should be used as one of the virtual dimension to view the cube measure numeric elem...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase data audited in regards to emailing to be able to answer IBM License Audit truthfully

Audit information needs to be able to provide the number of report recipients. This is part of IBM Licensing Audits. Currently customers can only data-mine Mailserver Logs, if that information is included.Or buy inconclusive Admin Software like Mo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration