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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.

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Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IMPORT REPEATER TABLE WITHOUT LOSING FORMAT USING IBM COGNOS FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE

System: IBM Cognos 10.2.1Actor: User needing new feature IBM Cognos is a commonly used product that provides reporting for better control of company data. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos to report company data and to send this report as pres...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Embedded Narrative Reporting Capabilities

I would like to have IBM Planning Analytics to support commentary reporting in the following ways: Commentary in Word or PowerPoint to have ability to reference numbers within a paragraph of text that dynamically links to the Planning Analytics da...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Excel As Accepted File Format

We have a client that requested asking Natural Language queries about all their documents which include Excel and Powerpoint files.
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add Powerpoint Accepted Input File Type

No description provided
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PAX excel launch from Power Point graph does not work properly

Currently, If I launch excel from a Powerpoint graph the custom report will not populate. Explorations work okay, but custom reports do not. Even new reports will not work during that session. The current work around is that I must first open an e...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PME: Disable Unused Functionality in Workbench

Many features of the PME algorithm are not available in PME AE, yet they still appear in workbench. I realize that this same Workbench UI is designed to form a configuration which can be deployed to several different products, but we could have an...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Vector graphics from RAVE visualizations

GfK needs to be able to access vector graphic based chart outputs from RAVE visualizations in the Cogons content store. These files can either be added to the content store or replace the currently existing bitmap files.With these scalable vector ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration