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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

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

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

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

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extension Items languaje localization

It would be very useful to gain the option to localize the names of the extesions items, such of dashbords/reports/.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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