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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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Cognos Analytics

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Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encript passwords in Configuration export

Password(hashed) in Cognos configuration is visible in Cognos configuration export. Need to create option to hide/encrypt passwords entered in Cognos configuration when exporting configuration to a file
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

deployment of one single dynamic cube in a multi project environment without extra environment

Deploy one single dynamic cube from one environment to another using a deployment archive without exporting all data sources and connections. example: export one cube in QS and import it to QS
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XAML Support for Cognos Analytics

We need to authenticate internal and external users and our company prefer to use XAML for this. Can we add this to Cognos Analytics as a supported solution.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Email Subject API

We are working in a project with the IBM software services to trigger running the report and send the report output by email using the attached HTTP POST method. However, the email subject is always the same as stored in the "deliveryOptions" bina...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Is it possible to update Cognos 11 to report a 'locked out' account?

Our client would like to be able to run a report or get an alert whenever a user gets locked out of their Cognos account.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include a Link to Report when running Interactively

When running a report interactively and user selects Select Delivery Method/Email Report, there is no option to Include a Link - only to Attach the report
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide chart axes in Dashboarding

Need an additional property available on charts within Dashboarding to hide chart axes. Charts already have many properties available on the x and y axis respectively but there is no option to hide the axis line entirely like there is in reporting.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration