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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize where Team Content folder appears

In Cognos 11.1.2 we were able to hide Team Content from the home page because we were able to set up a Custom folder from which our clients were able to launch reports. However all of the packages used to create dashboards were located in the Team...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration