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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Please add the schedule owner back to the interface

In Cognos Analytics, in the entry properties, we can see the entry owner, but in the Schedule details we cannot identify the owner of the schedule, which could be someone entirely different than the entry owner. Please add the schedule owner back ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics Dashboard integation with TM1 Planning Analytics

Creating a Dashboard in Cognos Analytics against a TM1/Planning Analytics data source needs better integration. TM1 users become comfortable creating Cube Views so there is an opportunity to integrate the systems by exposing Cube Views in Cognos A...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Line and column chart - Ability to add more then 2 measures

We would like to display 3 measures with 2 different axis. Therefore the Line and column chart would be perfect. ... but we can only add one measure per axis.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature to hide output format from 'Run as' screen

Currently the features to hide output formats (such as Excel and Excel data) via the role customizations are applicable only to the toolbars within the viewer screens. Even though Excel data is removed for a role, the Run as screen still shows tho...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration