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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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Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: format of value in visualization

In case the format of value is defined in the attribute, exploration visualization displays this format. But if the visualization is switched for example to Column visualization, the database format is displayed instead. We suggest to display form...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Adjusting the placement position of standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW - ability to execute chores / processes while not in edit mode

Ability for a user to not be in edit mode, and execute a chore / process (subject to security)
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists