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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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Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending SMS Message to users mobile from Cognos BI

Hi Team: We would like to send a text message to users mobile devises (mobile recipients) to tell the user that a report is available or not whenever job fails. Currently there isn't a way to send a text message to the mobile recipient in existing...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for content filter when using topcount

When using context filters in Workspace Advanced, Topcount dosn´t return the correct members.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For the saved outputs, the formats like pdf, xls to export the report are disabled.

For the saved outputs, the formats like pdf, xls to export the report are disabled.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Datacom support in CognosBI

We are in the process of introducing CognosBI v10.2.2 as our 'go-forward' BI dashboarding/reporting solution. Current BI platform is WebFOCUS. We have multiple CA Datacom datasources configured in the WebFOCUS environment that need to be reestabli...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos as standard service on Linux

Also applicable for PMR 87056 003 756.Would like to get a good reliable Cognos start / stop / restart / status script for Cognos as a service on Linux that stands in the standards of the Linux daemons: • Start/stop via service interface • Daem...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Profile of Cognos Workspace Advanced Custome User Interface

System: Cognos Business IntelligenceActor: Changing profile of custome user interface Description: By changing the profile of the user interface in Cognos Administration. I changed the profile of Cognos Workspace Advanced. When a report widget in ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration