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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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Ability to adapt destination package path when import reports

When we export from DEV environment a report which link with a specific DEV package path,we want to import this report in PROD environment where the package is stored on a different path than DEV.The name of the package don't change between the tw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Concurrent Query Execution

Cognos Analytics have concurrent query execution setting at server level and report query but it does not work efficiently in most of the case. Concurrent query execution is one of the bigger ask from the customer for better performance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Render Variables to hide/show columns for CSV and Excel-Data output format

Currently render variables and formats are completely ignored when executing a report in the output formats CSV and Excel-Data. Especially in cases where using render variables to display and hide complete list columns this would be very helpful. ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for treeprompt into dashboards (for dimensional data sources)

Hello, we are missing the support for tree prompt selection for elements in dashboard when using dimensional data. Today when we drag hierarchy we see list of root elements which is not expected behavior. Users need to see and browse the dimension...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboard List text wrapping

As a dashboard user, I would like to be able to display the full text of a Level field without having to hover over the text. Our use case requires us to display the dashboard on a large screen where users don't have the ability to hover over. Pro...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration