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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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Relative Time Members Prior Year QTD / MTD Change and % Growth

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes automatically generates, if chosen, Prior Periods and Prior Periods to Date relative time members. However, currently, only the only Prior Period to Date members are for 'Prior Year to Date' without members for 'Pri...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration