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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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Cognos Analytics

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Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Not under consideration

Enable advanced drill behavior in interactive mode

Advanced drill behavior give report developers a fine grain of control when building reports. Interactive mode no longer supports it, which causes a number of issues. An option should also be added to allow single-click drilling, as my users are c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

3000 data item restriction in dashboard visualisations

I see reference in the documentation for dashboards that dashboards will only visualize up to 3000 data points regardless of the visualization type. Is there any way to extend this value as this limitation makes dashboarding against data prohibiti...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create Data Sets from List Report

Current Data Set creation interface is limited to basic filters. This limits its use cases relatively static data that requires manual reprompting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists