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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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Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed.

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Google charts alignment Dashboarding vs. Report Authoring

As a business requirement we need histogram charts in CA 11.1.7 Since this functionality is not available in CA 11.1.7s onboard viz library we need to implement google histogram chart as described in this IBM doc: https://community.ibm.com/acceler...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration