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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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Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
about 13 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted