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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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Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos 11 - scheduling active reports

In Cognos 11, the ability to subscribe to an Active Report is no longer there. This is a feature that existed previously. In Cognos 11, if I open a regular report, I get a "..." menu where I can choose to subscribe to the report. However, for Acti...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement Cognos Audit

We need to create Audit report for showing usage of reports ,Cognos - Dashboard ,Data Module ,Story and exploration .We need usage/audit data from Cognos Dashboard,Data Modules and all the new tools added in CA 11 to be updated in Audit database i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Users can like reports, dashboards

Users can like reports, dashboards and send feedback to specific object.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default Action as 'Run the report'

When new reports are created with Report Studio, the default action in report properties is set as 'View Most Recent Report'. I would like a global option to be able to set this as 'Run the Report' for newly created reports. I'm not asking for a w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration