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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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roleValue should work with measures for the intrinsic properties

When using a measure set, it is very difficult to get the caption of the current measure in a variable. If you wanted a custom format for specific measures in the set, you have to find a clever workaround instead of just making a data item with ro...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Visualization Button on My Schedules and Subscriptions

When looking at schedules or past runs, would be good for users if the visualization, filter and refresh buttons were positioned on the left of the page. This would encourage users to use these options more and to know the various filter options a...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Tabs for Open Content in Reporting

In reporting there is currently a drop down to view what multiple reports, dashboards etc a user has open, this is located in the middle, It would be useful for users to have a tabbed view of what's open and also encourage users to close content t...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Ability to select multiple Queries

You can only select one query at a time to copy/move etc. It would be better to be able to Ctrl+select or select+shift+select to select more than one.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Character return within text boxes

When using the Text box tool, especially when typing a lot of text, you need to add another text box to get a new line, and set the Box Type to Block. Having the ability to create a new line with return would speed up the process significantly.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

LCR selection pane Search box

The current Layout Component Reference dialogue box requires scrolling through every single option, a search filter would allow for much easier use.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Collapsable/Expandable Filter Panes

If we could have collapsible panes for the Detail Filters / Summary Filters / Slicer sections within Queries, we could increase the size of the Detail Filters section. Would be even better if you could choose to hide the ones you don't use, within...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Job complete notification dialogue

When a job/schedule/report completes, a message notification pops up to say so (e.g. 'Report001 run complete and saved'). This would help to alert users that a schedule/job has completed as otherwise there is no form of notification if the job/sch...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted