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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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R Integration in Cognos Analytics

Similar to Jupyter notebook support, It would be great to have R support in Cognos. Capability to process R Script using data sources in Cognos Parameters could be passed into R Script via Prompt for e.g. user can choose x periods history to fore...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Create Dashboard Filter using static, user defined values

In Dashboarding, we would like the ability to have a Filter that contains user defined, static values without having to create a Data Module. We would also like the ability to add logic to the filter selection.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

A way for administrator to clear dataset content

As an administrator I need to be able to: -Clear dataset content e.g. a dataset created by a user has not been refreshed for a long time. As an administrator I need to be able to clear the content in the dataset. I do not want to delete the datase...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Audit

Cognos Audit "Administration Console"
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable feature to view Tabular data and download in MS Excel from DASHBOARD module

System: Cognos Analytics DASHBOARD module/toolActor: Dashboard Module need to allow viewing data behind each dashboard element in tabular format and downloadable in MS Excel. The Team of Business Analytics working in Accenture would like to evalua...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of .svg Images in Reports in PDF and Excel Format

Currently the .svg graphics/images are not displayed in the reports as pdf and Excel - Tested with CA11.0.9 (IBM Case TS001418175)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Show contents of all cells in a Dashboard Table

In a dashboard table (list) items that are repeated from row to row will not display if the prior column has repeating values for the same two rows. When this happens in the middle of the row it can require scrolling to find what the displayed val...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ParamDisplayValue() doesn't display when a default is set and the report is sent over a schedule

Our product reports use in-report value prompts. when configuring the value prompt, we are setting the Use Value and the Display Value. For some prompts we then set a default value for the Use Value. We are then trying to use a ParamDisplayValue()...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration