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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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There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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.
30 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...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted