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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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Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

[ENH] ""Open In..."" functionality in Cognos Mobile

Would like to have the ability to use the iOS ""Open In..."" button within Cognos Mobile so that reports can be exported to another program like Dropbox iAnnotate etc... for further consumption annotation review.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enh: Ability to Maintain Different Versions of Bursted Active Report in Mobile App

The Cognos Mobile app looks at the StoreID metadata of Active Reports that are created in BI 10.2 and later instead of the file name. Multiple versions of the same report are bursted to the file system and then emailed to the iPad or Android user....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[ENH]Mobile : Need of a version management in the user's application.

Let's imagine you have the financial report at a monthly frequency. You want to keep 12 versions of this report always with you. Normally as user you should be able to select a report in Cognos Mobile and say 'I want the March version' . As of tod...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENH - generate Excel Sort/filter arrows at run time of report in Cognos

My customers need an excel report generated with the excel sort/filter arrows generated at run time.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Order of chart legend colours does not match the chart body

In Cognos 10.2.1 GA when producing a 'Stacked Bar Chart' using the GO Sales (Query) package if you render the report in either HTML or PDF format the order of the colours displayed in the legend is the exact reverse of the colour order seen in the...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

ENH Ability to set different burst options for recipents within one report

Example: client has a report which is set to burst to two groups of people using their CAM ID: support and sales. Sales options: save the report and send to mobile. Support options: only to save to Cognos connection. Client is running the report t...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Definable and Reusable subsets (public + private) in BI Reports

Today there is the possibility to define public subsets in BI Reports (Shared sets in 10.2.1) but we would like a more flexible functionality: private as well as public subsets //// BI subsets as well as subsets based on package elements (dimensio...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Cognos Mobile Freeze Panes usage

Client would like the freeze panes functionality to be available from the mobile application while viewing reports. Currently this is not possible on the Ipod application
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: add the abilty to add Report Viewer GUI elements for certain user groups

At the moment it is only possible to hide Report Viewer elemnts system wide (by editing system.xml). It is a requirement that some elemnts are only visible to some user groups.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists