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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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Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Parametarized URL, passing Datasource Signon

For some datasource we have several Signon used for different group of people. Some people have suffisant privilege to use more than one Signon, so when launching a report, they are prompted for the Signon to use. The reports are launched from int...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration