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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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Incorporate Active Reports into Event Studio

We would like to request an urgent enhancement request for IBM Cognos 10.2+. We currently are unable to use Event Studio to schedule and trigger Active Report sendouts. This we believe is a vital missing element of the use of Event Studio in v10. ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share reque...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding Record Count query item in the Audit Package

We want to add a query item "Record Count" to the audit package. We don't see the query item in our Audit package. So if we have this item then it can be added to the Audit reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance Cognos BI DQM properties for Amazon Redshift Database Processing

Cognos BI XQE properties for Amazon RedShift currently does not support many new database functions, including MEDIAN, PERCENTILE_CONT, PERCENTILE_DISC etc. as per Amazon RedShift 2014 release notes. a. PERCENTILE_CONT b. PERCENTILE_DISC c. REGEXP...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make New Job... toggleable between Manage and Public

Make the position of "New Job... " toggleable between Pre-R10 and Post-R10 location.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration