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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Need ability to rename data modules and update links

We would like the ability to rename data modules in CA. We have the ability to swap out the modules, but cannot edit the name.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability on Schedule Management screen to sort running items by NAME

Add the ability to sort running items by NAME in the CA Schedule Management screen.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Output embedded reports as part of PDF outputs in Dashboards

The Use case revolves around dashboards that have complex embedded reports as part of the dashboard output. When exporting to PDF, currently, embedded widgets are not shown in the PDF output. This hinders the ability to consolidate and share insig...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improve the location of trendline label on the line chart

Improve the location of trendline label on the line chart
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove _en-us suffix when sending reports in Event Studio

I'm sending reports in excel format to a system to automatically load the data. However, the system does not like the suffix _en-us, specifically the dash.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenancy support with Azure AD (openID connection)

We want an option where we can tell Cognos to ignore the issuer value. Issuer value is only needed if we need to make access based decisions based on tenant id. In our environments we have no requirement of using this functionality. This seems to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration