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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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Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Group Repeating Cells - Export to Excel Default Value

System: Cognos Analytics 11 ReportsActor: User running daily reports Cognos Analytics 11 Reports are scheduled to run daily to analyze different portions of the business and are commonly exported to Excel. Description: Our team writes Daily report...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Request for PGP encryption for Cognos Analytics cube transfers

Our Cognos Analytics model requires several cubes to be build on-prem and then sent to the cloud. We understand these are encrypted once present on the IBM CA Cloud server. However, we'd like the capability to encrypt before sending them. NM can a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

gas gauge visualization

We need a "gas gauge" visualization to show performance
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Studio Compatibility for Microsoft Edge

Since Internet Explorer will be sunset soon, my client has decided MS Edge will be the 'standard' for our user base. Currently we have approximately 300 Query Studio users that can successfully use Query Studio with Edge, but only if Internet Expl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 3 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support rendering of Mapbox maps in PDF with "show values" property

Map visualizations are rendered in the browser as HTML but the ability to render maps showing values in PDF would increase adoption among our client base. This will be especially true when custom polygons are supported. The initial zoom level (e.g...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release