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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

On a Dashboard be able to change the title of item added to a visualization. Plus Column heading size/wrap

In a report report you are able to change the column heading, i.e. Sex_Descr to Sex or Gender. Want to be able to do the same thing on a dashboard. Or Sex_Code to Gender_Code. Users sometimes want to change the title of a field and since you can't...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard tooltips for duplicate items

Current functionality means that if a data item is on a visualisation as both a field and a tooltip it won't show in the tooltip. For example, if the Revenue data item is used for bar length and again in the visualisation tooltip, then the tooltip...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Connectivity to MongoDB Atlas SQL using JDBC

We are testing connectivity between CA and Atlas SQL Interface (MongoDB Cloud DB) using the JDBC Connection by passing all the required parameters as per the guidelines and the test data source connection ends with an error message - (not certifie...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Planned for future release

Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions

Cognos11 DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions.Right now the data model does not allow role playing.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration