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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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Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Preconfigure Framework Manager and Transformer for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated

When customers are onboarded to Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated, customers have the option to download, install and configure Framework Manager and PowerPlay Transformer. The configuration is cumbersome, time consuming and IBM supplies most ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Reduce No. of HTTP requests

Cognos Analytics generates much more HTTP requests (comparing with 10.2) . This behavior is causing significant traffic over proxy agent.Optimization would be great-full.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration