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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.

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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 User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Have some of the Properties accessible to users as Prompts

Your Dashboards are starting to get better but some of the Abilities/Properties are stuck in either Show ALL or NONE to users depending on their Capabilities/Permissions Some Properties would be great to have them as part of the Dashboard as Promp...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

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 11.0.7 "Link to Package" functionality is not Available

Product : Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 Issue : Users are facing difficulties to re link their package in Cognos 11.0.7 reports. Description : Users used to change the package (Re link) for their report by just clicking the report properties and then by...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration