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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.

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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Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Toggle between Measures in Dashboard Visualization

If I am building a dashboard and I want to use the same visualization (PIe Chart for example), I would like to create the visualization only once and display it on the dashboard only once and then have some means to toggle between various measures...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Error Capability should be at least part of the Analytics User License

The capability detailed error, is only part of the Administrator Licence und should be available for all Licences. It is technically possible to assign the capability to regular users, but not allowed due to licence restictions.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Make TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics private , according to the user's security profil

The capability to use TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics is really a highlight in R9. However those subsets a public meaning available to all users. In TM1 there are also private Subsets which are only available to specific users. We need the same ca...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release