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


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Cognos Analytics

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Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos Dashboard Responsive Template

A self Dashboard needs to display properly at any browser width. This can be achieved by dynamically updating the layout of UI components, shrinking the size of UI components, and/or toggling which UI components are visible on the page. The user s...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In Cognos Administration, add an additional entry called 'Subscriptions'

In the Administration Console, Status tab, add an additional entry (for example, below Calendars) called 'Subscriptions'. Display the list of reports with subscriptions (like thecalendars).In the properties of a report, provide the following infor...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add lineage feature to find dependent reports for a data module

my business team stakeholders asked to provide an audit of dependent reports on data modules within the production portal the audit was asked for to understand if the reports which are running on schedule can be assigned to a different user or sim...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide Support for Office 365 with Cognos applications

Request Office 365 be supported as an export target for BI Server reports and Viewer for Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Analysis for Excel.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules as source in transformer

Unable to use a data module or a report created using a data module as a source in transformer. Do not see a option to pick data module while adding a source into a new transformer model.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define range for the Colors within Dashboard Color Palette

Currently Color Palette for the Dashboard Visualizations allows to define Custom Colors (along with the predefined Color Palettes available) with Low to High range of values but cannot define what the Low and High Values are.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration