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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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Suprres empty rows threshold

Hello, In report studio, when talking about suppressing empty rows, there are only two options : keep empty rows or suppress empty rows.The threshold in this case is by default 0. We would like the possibility to define a threshold for suppression...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orientation / Portrait : possibility to dynamically change without duplicating report pages

Today when we want to allow the user to launch the report either in portrait or landscape, we need to create our own prompt and to duplicate report pages in Report Studio to apply 2 different PDF PAGE Setup on each of our 2 report pages.Would it b...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 10.2 Transformer - Cloak option and display in Report studio/Analysis studio

To not have security characters or that those characters are considered as numeric to be able to do a suppress row and columns
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMR 13167,7TD,000: Refreshing only the prompts and not the whole report page

We have few pick-list cascaded prompts on the report page. Whenever user selects these prompts, and click submit, the whole report page with data gets refreshed along with the cascaded prompt values. We need only the cascaded prompt values to be r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Embed Data In Reports Without Special Coding (i.e. Active Reports)

We would like the ability to embed data In reports WITHOUT having to do special/different/extra development. Right now, in order to do this, you need to use a completely different design paradigm (active reports). Then, if you change your mind and...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstab

Reporting: Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstabBe able to determine with a report function if we are in the last row or/and column of a list or a crosstab of a physical PDF page in order ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading function needs to provide ability to cascade a default selection as well. ParamValue needs more flexibility

Prompts that not only cascade w/ other prompts but also allow prompts to trigger default selection of other prompts. (ie: Geography prompt when selected North America it will trigger the territories prompt to be populated with the North America te...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration