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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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Include Null Filter Works Strangely

I have a report with two columns in a list: Period Year and Month and Charges. At the top of the list is correctly a row for which the timeframe is empty (because the period has not been close yet for those entries). When I add a filter to the rep...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify Namespace without Gateway

As Cognos Analytics does not require the use of a Gateway it is being requested that the ability to specify the namespace to be used is provided. This functionality exists when using a gateway and specifying the Gateway namespace.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Audit Log show when Report is cancled due to the Report Server Execution time limit.

The system has the following configuration setting on the Report Server service: Maximum execution Time for the report service (seconds) = 3600 When reports hit this time limit, the Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT) shows:RSV-SRV-0063 An error occ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Filterbar Enhancement

When I embed a dashboard onto an intranet site using an iframe there appears to be no way to have the filterbar collapsed by default. I can hide the navbar and appbar but not set the filterbar to be hidden or at least collapsed by default. Adding ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Upload picture with upload file feature

use "upload files" feature to upload pictures to display this picture in report.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration