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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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Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data module - Import from & Export to Clipboard options like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Data module like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report It would be helpful to edit the Data module in code. As far as Data module is ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Select All" Filter Limitation in Reports

Add the option to Select All after searching for values in a Reports filter or remove the limitation when trying to shift-click a large data set.The limitation seems like a bug, but support from case number TS000955204 said to open a RFE to resolve.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Transfer all content of application section from TM1 Perspectives to PAXL

Many of our clients used to work with PA using TM1 Perspecives ribbon in Excel. This tool allowed grouping excel sheets and cube views in separate folders. This option was very usefull and convenient for users because they can easily find proper v...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration