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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Keep schedule when copying reports

Customer moves a report, report view or event and the schedule stays with the object. If one copies a said item the schedule gets removed which is understandable or it would run twice. However, if you copy and want to keep the copy you have to cre...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export of filters to Excel from Workspace Advanced

When creating a report in Workspace Advanced with filters, when this report is exported to Excel the filters are not displayed in the spreadsheet as they are form other products. When run from Cognos Workspace and exported , the filters are shown....
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Function of row highlighting in list

Customer want a function of row highlighting function in list as well as current column body highlighting.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

BI multitenancy features required for image handling in BI Studios

In a multi-tenant environment end customers need to be fully separated.Currently if Report Studio or Query Studio is available to end customers, adding images to a report shows the same folder content for each customer. Therefore end customers are...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PROMPT USERS WICH JOIN RELATIONSHIP TO USE WITH MULTIPLE RELATIONS BETWEEN DIMENSIONS

PROMPT USERS WICH JOIN RELATIONSHIP TO USE WITH MULTIPLE RELATIONS BETWEEN QUERY SUBJECTS In Framework manager , you now have the option to use in(DQM) Contextsentive join selection = Explicit and Use in Joinpath=True However this is hardcoded in ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration