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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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Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports

Now you have the possibility to schedule one report with one schedule rule. My suggestions is to create a multiple schedule for one report. My suggestion to resolve this problem is with an option of multiple schedules and with this two options: - ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Include Greater Than/Less Than in Filter Condition

On a dashboard, we would like the ability to set a "greater than" and "less than" filter condition on a numeric value in a visualization.
almost 6 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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
about 6 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 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration