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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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Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add Totals in stacked column / bar chart for every bar or column

Within Dashboard we require very often at stacked column or bar charts, that the total of all stacked cetagories is visible above the bar or column. Currently we can only enable / disable the values for every stacked cel directly at the bar. But n...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Advanced Drill Behaviour in Full Interactivity Mode

Advanced drill behaviour is disabled for fully interactive mode because of which,unable to assign level labels and users are getting confused about the level on which they are presentUnable to drill down on data points in chart
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cubes relative time members in Dashboards

Would like the ability to use relative time members when creating dashboards, eg. current year, from Dynamic Cubes.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted