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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Context Sensitive help missing

When clicking on "Help" in Cognos 10.2.2 you were directed to a context specific help. For example, when viewing the properties of a folder, you were directed to the Administration and Security Guide section "Properties of elements".In Cognos 11 y...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign different icons to the different data points as per category on maps

Hi Team, There is enhancement requirement in cognos analytics version 12.0 dashboard to assign more icons as per category in maps. For example: If we have category column in our dataset that consists of different categories like type1,type2,type3 ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow copying of individual report pages between two different Cognos systems

It is currently not possible to copy individual report pages between two different Cognos systems. You can copy complete reports between two Cognos systems. You can also copy individual report pages within the same Cognos system, but not between t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration