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


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Cognos Analytics

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Dashboard, on crosstab viz add sort by summarized values

In Dashboards add sort function to the summary column field on a cross tab visualization type
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Swap Series and Categories

Add ability to quickly swap series and categories on a visualization - similar to swap columns and rows on a crosstab.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration