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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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OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for Cognos licence when emailing content to users with no Cognos access

When we schedule a report like other BI products we would like the ability to deliver content straight into users/customers inboxes without the requirement for them to hold as a minimum an Information Distribution licence. We accept that those com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

With 64-bit execution mode enabled, no longer require 32-bit libraries

(Cognos 11.1.7 - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Please consider removing the need for 32-bit dependencies in Cognos if the 64-bit execution mode is enabled. This is misleading if we enable 64-bit to try and run a more modern DQM version of Cognos, yet 32-bi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Namespace export to allow restore of individual users

This is a request to better protect User's data under the My Contents folders. Currently you can export all users but there is no granularity so that you can restore specific users that have an issue (It's all or nothing).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Run History Overview per Report View

In Version 10 it was possible to take a look in to the run history in the properties of a report view. There you can see e.g. the last 5 runtimes in a table.In Verison 11 you have to go on a saved report output and then you see the run history of ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No checkboxes on prompt page

In CA11 the check box options are not available on the prompt page when we create "Context filter" and apply "Prompt on Hierarchy" in CA. In Cognos 10 there was a check box selection and the customer was able to select the check box and was able t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration