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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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Replicate Dashboard Map Functionality in Reports (Drill Through and Brushing)

Replicate Dashboard Map Functionality in Reports
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to modify/remove 'Quick reference' from 11.0.8 home screen

With the the 11.0.8 interface, need to capability to modify (preferred) or to remove the 'quick reference' menu. As delivered it has links to external sites.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Copy to clipboard report name and path

C11 do not have an easy way to copy as text the complete name and path of a report. When a report has a long path, its location is partially replaced with ellipsis. The complete path is displayed in a tooltip window when hovering the ellipsis. The...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Close report set as homepage

When setting a report as the home page, we want the option at any time during the session to close that report and then return to the default home page.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups

Share pins : to be able to create a pin library for certain target groups: you can now set up your own private pin lybrary of interesting components in dashboards and explorations. We would like to have the possibility to setup a shared pin librar...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Password Protected for Excel or CSV Schedules

We have the requirement that the excel or CSV report output should password protection
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration