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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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timeout warning popup window (I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout.)

I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout. We have currently 60 Minutes time out set. What we want an alert window showing that the session is about to expire.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Legend Object Labels (custom text, option to hide summarization method)

In dashboard, when multiple facts are pulled into a visual, the legends labels have the summarization method concatenated on the end [measure 1 (sum), measure 2 (calculated)]. The summarization method should be optional to show. In addition, all l...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace.

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace. And this namespace is created with Open ID Connect.
over 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.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Need Cognos BI to have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent

Cognos should have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent. For example, the embed reports were changed, the agent execution time was changed, the email recipients were changed, etc, there should have a record generated so Cogno...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Displaying active report output without addressbar or customise the URL in the addressbar

Hi, We got a requirement to customise the dashboard's URL and my question is once I have built the Custom URL when publishing this to External Customers, is there a way that not to show the full URL in the browser but a cut down version so the use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Maps Hints

It should be possible, as a property, to define the hint displayed when mouse hovering over a country for example. Background: currently when using latitude and longitude, users are confused by seeing those GPS coordinates which are not bringing a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration