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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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bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports file name

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adding calculated as option to Active report "Summarize in output"

Active report with COL1, COL2, COL3 where COL3 is COL2/COL1. When using default summary calculation totals er calculated correct, but when changing to summarize in output the calculation options does not include an option for "calculated" hence ma...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration