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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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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

Allow Default for language selection listbox when override the default report properties

When the checkbox «Override the default values» is checked in the report properties panel, the format and the language must be specify. we don't want specifcy the language. Only the format must be specify. The language must depends to the user p...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Elapsed time to Dynamic Query Analyzer

When the Aggregate Advisor completes its analysis within Dynamic Query Analyzer, the only reference to time is the start time. There is no completion time or elapsed time.I would like to know how long the analysis took, so please add completion ti...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide a nested crosstab column

In crosstab report " box type " property is "none " is applied on nested data items in column but not on their parents. See APAR PI30191I
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration