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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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Cognos Analytics

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Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Align font size of KPI & summary visualizations on a dashboard tab

We'Id like to have the font size of KPI and summary visualizations aligned, at least on a tab. Typically on dashboards KPI/Summary visualizations are aligned adjacent on a dashboard tab, with identical visualization box sizes. To make things look ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration