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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Data module: Grouping tables

I would like to have the ability to group tables importes into a new Data module. This would be equivalent to the yellow folders in FM.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Filter on expressions

In Data module it would be nice to ba able to filter a table on a condition rather than tapping checkboxes. Eg. year(Invoicedate) between year(getdate())-2 and year(getdate())
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Build automatically Function in Report Studio

In previous version (impromtu) there was an automatic build up of the function/help available at the moment you started the expression. This nice feature is lost in time. would be nice to get this back as many users are struggling with enterring t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Extend FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior"

Currently the FM Governor "(DQM) Data Item Label Behavior" has two options which are documented here. There should be added a third option: "Always use data item name (if there is no explicit label defined)". The problem is that the list column na...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Updating Timezone for Cognos Analytics service on CP4D

To align Cognos Analytics reports and logs timestamp with local time, for example from UTC to EST.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Submitted

Data module: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel options in cognos viewer

Veiw in excel options shows as excel 2007,but if cognos supports 2010 version also. why can't it be independent of version likeView in Excel Data OnlyView in Excel
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Legend

The legend position for the chart (pls refer legendpositionvertical pic), the legend is horizontal, we used to see in vertical in 11.0.6. Is there any way we can render it to vertical position on right side.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration