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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Option to open report in new tab/window

Reports can be toggled in the Navigation Menu, but the ability to view reports side-by-side would be useful. An option to open the report into a new tab/window would be helpful
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - without Editing the Dashboard, in Properties - show the PACKAGE/ Data Module source.

Presently, I do not see a way of knowing the Package / Data Module a Dashboard uses as it's source without EDIITING the Dashboard. It would be helpful if the full Breadcrumb path to the Package/Data Module is visible from outside of the EDIT optio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export/import color palettes among multiple environments with no need to export the entire Content Store

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration