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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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ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay in logging of CM-REQ-2xxx messages in cogserver.log file

The cogserver.log file take long time to get updated with CM-REQ-2299 and CM-REQ-2300 messages, when export/import operations are performed through trigger.sh utility
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Y-Axis scaling

Current behavior of the legacy PGSDK charting engine renders an empty chart using 0 to 500 for percentage format by default. We would like to have the ability to set this to 0 - 100.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Legacy Map not sense Cities of Pakistan.

Legacy map in Cognos DashBoard do not sense Cities of Pakistan , as there ic no file in the map directory with the name of [ pakistan.cmf ], as through CMF files Legacy map sense all other Coutries State / Cities like USA, UK
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cognos analytics cube designer issue case # TS001585275

Hi, Cognos analytics cube designer not supporting aggregate function like max,min.We are trying to use the min,max function in cube designer but the options are not available to use. Thanks, Sakti
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Hiding the Data Server type in Cognos 11

Customizing the Data Server Type list from Data Server List in Portal . I would like to delete/Deactivate the Data Server list from manage menu which are not required
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration