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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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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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Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

TM1 and Cognos Controller Interoperability

TM1 crashes or takes reasonably long time to process reports if run from ‘Perspective’ in Excel, while running along with Cognos Controller. TM1 and Cognos controller should be compatible and should not crash if both application running in the par...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics : With the possibility of display report pages as tabs, customers like to build reports with multi-pages that display multi-analysis at the same time instead of separated...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Include Packages For NSPs & Advanced Triggers In Rebind Phase-In Eligibility

Rebind Phase-In is a great enhancement. It would be even better if NSPs & Advanced Triggers were eligible for Rebind Phase-In. NSPs represent a large percentage of the packages we are currently executing -- in our biggest Production DSG NSPs c...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expand/Collapse in dashboard

You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enabling the use of Audit reports in Cognos Analytics SaaS

In Cognos Analytics on-Prem version, it is possible to perform Audit reports. However, in the Cloud (SaaS) version, it is not possible to perform audit reports/users in the Cloud (SaaS) version. In contact with IBM Support, the specialist recommen...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release