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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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Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Previous/Next Record Function

Hi I've seen other BI Tools use their own Previous Function to access Previous records. Not looking at the Running-count or running-diff Functions as those are for Metrics As of SQL 2012, MS has introduced Lag and Lead Functions in SQL
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to apply 'stoplight' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to apply 'stop-light' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude hidden modules/data sets/packages from search in Dashboards

Dashboards include a search feature that gives users ability to use natural language to scan the content store for data sources that might contain information to answer a question of what is needed for a dashboard. This search should exclude hidde...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration