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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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Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Setting to control the default option of Conflict Resolution when saving reports to file system

When we save a report to file system, the default option for Conflict Resolution is Replace. Since we want to use the Time Stamp option, we will have to check the option every time. We would like to have a setting that we can set Time Stamp as the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto-layout feature for model graph in a Data Module

When creating a data module in the new web-based data modeling interface, a graph of the model is shown on the right side of the screen. Currently, there is no way to lay out the model other than manually dragging the tables around. It would be gr...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show All References to a Paramater

Add functionality to identify all references to a paramater within report studio design view.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Move the 'Edit Data Item Label' button left in toolbar. This option is selected many times more than others (such as sort).

In building many reports I must change most of the field labels on the actual report the user gets. I must select the three ellipses and in the drop down select the 'Edit Data Item Label'. This is time consuming. This is used much more often than ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wrapping x-axis label on report studio bar charts

Need ability to wrap text on report studio bar chart.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated Axis title with multiple metrics in Dashboard

In the current dashboard, the product automatically rendering the text "Values" whenever we are trying to use the multiple metrics. IS there any way we can customize it to change to meaningful verbiage
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration