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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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Ownership change for many objects in Cognos Analytics on prem

Required is the possibility to change the ownership of many objects(i.e. report) in one run.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - For data server connections and uploaded files, turn off/on cleansing of table and column labels

This is how it works today: For data server connections and uploaded files, the table and column labels are cleaned up in English and some other languages in the following way: For single files, the file extension, such as .xls or .csv, is remove...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add control setting to determine the additional text on the name of output files.

I have a report written in Cognos 11.  It runs on a schedule that saves it to the file system on the Cognos Server.  When they are saved there, it adds the “-en-us” to the end of the file name. For example: The report scheduled was name...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Saving new default "run as" parameters for reports

Looking for ability to save default "run as" parameters for reports including run in background, report format (Excel, PDF, etc.), and advanced settings so that users do not have to change these settings every time they run a report.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration