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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Ability to hide or disable built-in change and growth relative time members in Dynamic Cubes

Cube modeler can't affect to the behavior of built-in relative time members in Dynamic Cubes (Year to Date Change, Year to Date % Growth, QTD Change, QTD % Growth, MTD Change, etc.). Because those calculations are fixed they won't always show the ...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend Cognos SDK product documentation by information about SSL configuration

After freshly installing Cognos Analytics a custom java program using the Cognos SDK stopped working (SSL error)The product documentation provided no hints to what the problem could be and how it can be resolved. Neither did it explain the correct...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Support Jupyter Notebooks on Kubernetes

On a private cloud installation (on premises) we would like to run the Jupyter container in a kubernetes environment, integrated to Cognos Analytics, instead of a dedicated Linux server. It provides a more reliable governed infrastructure for micr...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Sessions of CA in Edge Browser

In IE, it is possible to open multiple sessions of CA, for instance a CA Development env, Test env, and Production env all at the same time. When attempting to do so with Edge, a cookie error results. Not sure if the architecture of Edge will perm...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

ability to show what users are logged into Cognos analytics

when doing maintenance, you do not know who is in the system, so you might drop them as you restart the CM or dispatcher.. it would be nice to be able to see who is logged in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration