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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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We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime() in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or si...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

current_date or current_timestamp Cognos Functions Enhancement to enable Query to be re-used for DQM mode

When current_date or current_timestamp is used, query reuse is disabled since the values for those functions would need to be cached to allow reuse. Since the cashed value might not be the same as the current value it is considered a data integrit...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under consideration

names for JOB's steps

Would it be possible to give names to the different steps of a job? it would be easier to select the single one to be modified when there are many steps within the same jon
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add object Tags to be reportable in Cognos

Tags are a great function within OpenPages. As a 'flag' that can be searched on this also needs to be added to the reporting framework so it can be utilised by Cognos. This will replicate the same behaviour when exporting objects with multiple ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Event Agent enhancement request

Ability to drag (move) a dialogue box around while creating/editing of an Event Agent. A picture is attached showing the dialogue box. However, it can not be moved around.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Report Page or Dashboard Tabs as tooltips

Improves User Experience
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration