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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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Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cognos analytics cube designer issue case # TS001585275

Hi, Cognos analytics cube designer not supporting aggregate function like max,min.We are trying to use the min,max function in cube designer but the options are not available to use. Thanks, Sakti
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace doesn't show -0.

Currently when I set the format to "#,##0;-#,##0", it doesn't show -0 in the Cube view/Workspace even if I enter Negative number like -0.33. I would like it to show -0.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add filter data details in PDF - Dashboard export when filter condition is applied on a filter in a visualization

When filter condition is applied to a filter in the visualization, filter data goes missing in the PDF when dashboard is exported. End user is unable to view the filter data details when dashboard is exported in PDF format.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Legacy Map not sense Cities of Pakistan.

Legacy map in Cognos DashBoard do not sense Cities of Pakistan , as there ic no file in the map directory with the name of [ pakistan.cmf ], as through CMF files Legacy map sense all other Coutries State / Cities like USA, UK
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration