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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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Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Feature to hide output format from 'Run as' screen

Currently the features to hide output formats (such as Excel and Excel data) via the role customizations are applicable only to the toolbars within the viewer screens. Even though Excel data is removed for a role, the Run as screen still shows tho...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration