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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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Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Export on Dashboard R7 only available to for author mode

We have a requirement to be able to export data from public facing dashboards. The drill through to report doesn't work because we can't change the default output from HTML to excel or CSV and the default setting on the report isn't used. The R7 e...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Forecasting not available with Package included in Data Module

Forecasting is being used on a visualization from a relational source only. The data module contains relational tables and a package. The issue is the forecast does not work unless we remove the package from the data module. However, the package i...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Ability to define range for the Colors within Dashboard Color Palette

Currently Color Palette for the Dashboard Visualizations allows to define Custom Colors (along with the predefined Color Palettes available) with Low to High range of values but cannot define what the Low and High Values are.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Multi-Measure support in Dashboarding Pie chart

Multi-Measure support in Dashboarding Pie chart would enhance the flexibility of the chart to work with a broader range of data sets. This functionality already exists in other charts such as the Stacked Column chart. This is a great feature becau...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PH11391: REPORT CREATED IN CA 11.1.1 WITH 11.1 VISUALIZATIONS ARE NOT SHOWING UP IN THE EMAIL BODY.

We would like to receive notification when solutions are made for APAR PH11391. When a report is created in CA 11.1.1 and 11.1 visualization isadded to it, then it does not show up in the email body.However, if in the same report 11.0 visualizatio...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release