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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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send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard - Renaming Data Item Fields/Label and Field Header display

On the Cognos Analytics Dashboard, currently there are no direct way to rename "Data Item Name" and "Data Item Label" (Display name). This feature available in Congos Reports - where users can click on the field and chose to Rename "Data Item Name...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a dat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Shortcut sorting location

I have been informed by a business unit that manages a folder that the folder should be renamed and moved. While that unit manages the contents of the folder, they are not the only users of said content. Moving and/or renaming the folder will conf...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow passing an id_token_hint into the Logout Redirect URL when logging out of OIDC namespaces

With OpenID Providers such as KeyCloak, it has previously been possible to send a user to their logout URL directly, without providing any token. For example: http://{domain-name}/auth/realms/{realm-name}/protocol/openid-connect/logout?redirect_ur...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release