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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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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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Cognos Analytics

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Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Method to treat Null values as zero

This is only one example of where this problem may occur: We have a complex FM model which has been designed to return relative time values based upon the notes discussed here - https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page90.html Th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting Time Functions should use the Time zone set in Cognos Global Configuration

Reporting Time Functions and Tool box items should use the time zone that has been defined in Server Time Zone in Global Configuration.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Support IE 11 on touch sensitive devices (MSGesture)

In IE11 on any touch sensitive device, Microsoft created new events to handle things like mouse movement, finger swipes, and light pen interactions. Prior to IE 11, these were all considered Mouse events, however in IE11 Microsoft changed their co...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

produce a report in XML and CSV format with more than one query

The Report Studio user guide states : You can produce a report in HTML PDF CSV various Excel formats and XML. You cannot produce a report in CSV or XML format if you have more than one query defined in the report unless the additional queries are ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration