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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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Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Drill Popup Modal

Often times users want to drill into data, but don’t want to navigate away from the current report. It would be very useful to allow a drill to allow the target to be opened in the existing report as a popup or modal.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration