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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.

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My ideas: Cognos Analytics

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Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Switch from non-interactive to interactive report

A report with V11 abilities to interact with it will not work with this feature when it is a drill through form a report without this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Master/Detail property to 11.1 Visualisations

Master/Detail relationship has always existed in Report Studio. But he is missing in the latest news visualization. This is a basic feature of Cognos and I do not understand how it is possible that it has not been implemented. it is necessary to...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

rate limiting to avoid excess password attempt

This vulnerability was discovered by attempting numerous incorrect passwords for a backup, followed by the correct one, and observing that authentication succeeded without any delay or lockout.There are password-protected backups available to user...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Dashboard crosstab needs to aggregate properly

When using crosstab with calculated columns (percentage) and users nests rows, the subtotals are shown as NaN% I would expect the crosstab to handle the order of calculation by default where it calculated the inner column/first subtotal first and ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Alter Uploaded Files

When uploading excel sheets to use, display, and manipulate for the purpose of storyboarding or dashboarding, there is no feature to change or view the attribute types once uploaded. In order to accomplish this task, you must re-upload and re-link...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration