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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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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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Adding Job Steps - Favourites Option

When adding a Job Step to a Job, the user currently has the option of selecting from My Content or Team Content. When reports are buried deep down in a hierarchy of folders, this makes them hard to locate. Please add an option to select from Favou...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

roleValue should work with measures for the intrinsic properties

When using a measure set, it is very difficult to get the caption of the current measure in a variable. If you wanted a custom format for specific measures in the set, you have to find a clever workaround instead of just making a data item with ro...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Background Image Sourcing

Standard layout images can be sourced from a URL that is either text or the result of a report expression. The report expression option provides quite a bit of functionality in terms of being able to show different images based on simple or comple...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation

Hello, Here is an idea on export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation. it's mostly on static packages. Reason behind is to test AP recommendation in lower environment before the real usage in production. By explain or e...
5 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Expand and collapse capability for hierarchical dimensions in cognos lists in report studio

The requirement by client is the tabular data should provide the facility to expand and collapse to see the breakdown of dimension with hierarchy. e.g. If user expands column A that contains hierchical dimension, it should expand to column B and s...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1

We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime() in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or si...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration