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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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Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

inherit navigaton path from underlying datamodule

We are modelling in different levels. The first level is a technical layer in which we model the technical to the business terms. There will be one datamodule per fact and dimension. In the next level we are modelling for instance a staar schema w...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Controls to be supported in Prompt Pages

We provide Cognos to our clients and this includes standard reporting templates. Our DQM solution uses a tree prompt against a relational package. The Java takes the tree nodes and converts the syntax to work with a relational filter. Unfortunatel...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration