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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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An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Future consideration
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted
116 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Dashboard Features

1. Can the Dashboard report be scheduled? To be emailed to Inbox 2. Can a dashboard report output be exported/scheduled to run in Excel? So that it can be attached to email delivery method
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Submitted

Option to view number of jobs running on the platform over the period.

We request this enhancement as there is currently no option to view the number of jobs running on platform over a given period. This feature is available on IBM DS 11.7 Operations Console and is useful for effectively monitoring and managing job c...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted