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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resizable windows Drill-through Definition in Report Studio

As a report developer I often need to open existing drill-through definitions, explore and edit parameter mapping. When report contains more than 9 parameters (the most of my enterprise customer reports), I have to scroll down / up for display all...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending SMS Message to users mobile from Cognos BI

Hi Team: We would like to send a text message to users mobile devises (mobile recipients) to tell the user that a report is available or not whenever job fails. Currently there isn't a way to send a text message to the mobile recipient in existing...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit tables - Customer would like to see report names when running a report in Workspace Advance and Report Studio Instead

When customer opens a report that has been previously saved in Workspace Advanced and Report Studio and runs report interactively the report is audited as adHocReport
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh| Use of Web Fonts in IBM Cognos

Client would like to see IBM Cognos enhanced to be able to support the use of web fonts like those provided by Google.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration