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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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Improve Hide Summaries property for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards

In a lot of real cases we want to display some attributes but need an overall summary for the key figures. Between version 10.0.10 and 11.1.1 the property "hide summaries" has been introduced for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards. It allows to sw...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dashboard View like Reportviews

Our users are moving the Dashboards to my content with there name selected for filter, but if we do any changes to main Dashboard under Team content they are not getting those updates to My Content, looking for having similar concept as Report vie...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting of KPI and summary visualizations i dashboards

I would like to be able to format the number and not just the title of Summary and KPI visualizations. I would like to change the size and the color. I know I can change the color of a summary KPI but it is limitted colors, and I am today not able...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration