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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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Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

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

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Data security filters on datasets

As a data modeler I want to secure data based on datasets via security filters in data modules. Same type of security filters as for database tables. We have an urgent case now where a dashboard based on uploaded files need to have data security i...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

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

Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to

I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release