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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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Cognos Analytics

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Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization from Spreadsheet can refreshes automatically

Report as a datasource of visualization that can be run to scheduled to output to a spreadsheet/csv and the refreshed spreadsheet used as datasource. Currently manually uploaded spreadsheets are used as datasource. This can be ne time but graduall...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy and paste Prompt page to another report

In the version 11.1.3 is impossible to copy and paste prompt page from one report to another. In the version 10.2.2 is a very useful feature, can you enable in the new version?
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translation of functions and operators as per user preferences language

The report functions were translated according to the installation language in Serie 7It would be great to have the same in Cognos Analytics
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use geospatial functions on geodata type without making a SQL Table in Data module

We want to use spatial functions with spatial data type in informix in a datamodule. We have a lot of tables containing a spatial data type. We want it to have it like in framework manager. DEV TS005539448: I got a response from dev team and there...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improper Session Management (PMR-TS007941522)

security can be tightened. Multiple sessions of are restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

A widgets in dashboarding, in which data item should always be returned in complete

I want to make a diagram. On the X-as I want ALL the months of a year. As a measure I want the number of Invoices (as an example). Nowadays a month doesn't appear when there are no Invoices in that month. Still, I want to keep seeing the month on ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create distribution lists within a tenant

In Cognos 11, Distribution Lists can only be created from the Cognos namespace. This prevents tenant client administrators from managing within their own tenant. We would like the ability to have our own client tenants maintain their administratio...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration