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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.

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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Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Syncronized navigation paths

When using a Cognos Analytics dashboard, multiple visualizations often share a common column and thus a common navigation path. There should be a property, much like the widget connections property, that allows the dashboard developer to synchroni...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RANK in Cognos Report Authoring

We migrated from Cognos 7 to Cognos 11. Users cannot create query calculations. Some users use only basic functionality in the reports. In powerplay there used to RANK option. Please create an option to create RANK column field in Cognos report au...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide / UnHide Columns after generated report

Provide the options for setting Columns to Hide / UnHide after a report is generated. The Saved custom view can be updated.
over 9 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?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Provide Extended Agent Audit Reports

Cognos Analytics currently only ships with a narrow set of Audit Reports in regard to Agent Execution. It is not possible to get an easy overview of Runtimes for Agents and their Payload. The Sample Package also does not cover the correct connecti...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules Relinking View To New View With Different Name

Currently we have test environment and production environment for both the database and Cognos , Views that are being created on test database have a different name than the ones on production . Users are creating data modules on test server using...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration