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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Please help make Export and Import more efficient

The process of transferring objects from one server to another has not been efficient for a long time. The process is too cumbersome. It would help administrators a lot if we can drag objects from one server and drop them to another server by spec...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Conditional data formatting in data modules and dashboards

It is a common requirement to display a Crosstab given a set of PnL accounts such as "Revenue, Bill of Materials, and Bill of Materials as a % of Revenue." There is currently no way in Data Modules or Dashboards to conditionally format a values da...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have relative default date selection on filters

When a date filter is added it is not possible to have a default data selection. This could for example be the last 90 days.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make a package default for all reports in cognos 11.09

Set a package to be default package for all the new reports for Cognos 11.09.Currently there is no option that can set a particular package to be default package for all the new reports in Cognos 11.In Cognos 11 Users always have to add package ma...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reduced spacing between the values in a prompt

Currently there is a lot of spacing between prompt values when using any report style of version 11 (besides 11.x). This does not provide a good overview of the values in the prompt, the users have to scroll a lot to find the value that they want ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration