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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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Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future 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