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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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Ability to set time restriction on reporting schedules

When scheduling a report, I would like to designate times when end users are not able to schedule their reports.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tables and report expression in the cells of the crosstab is embedded, and we want to use the elements of the intersection.

System: Cognos Business IntelligenceActor: Creating a report Description: We want to use the crosstab from the following two reasons.1. The iteration table, there is a problem that value from being displayed even all 0.2. The usability of crosstab...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance no data handling for cross tab

Crosstab cannot be hide totally according to empty result set returned from the query. The suppression feature can archive it with side effect that rows and columns have to be suppressed individually which is not desired.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp Missing in popup window for cognos Dynamic Cube Error PMR No 10114,7TD,000

Timestamp Missing in popup window for cognos Dynamic Cube Error PMR No 10114,7TD,000
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt User for Credentials if Database Login Fails

We report off of an Oracle database using database credentials that expire after 30 days. When you run a report, you get prompted for a user name and password along with a checkbox that says “Remember my user ID and password when connecting to t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Administrator to have a custom folder(s)

As a follow up to the following, we are requesting a modification to allow system administrators to have a custom folder on the navigation bar. PI79148: CUSTOM FOLDER FEATURE DOESN'T WORK FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR(http://www-01.ibm.com/support/do...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add list for measures in dashboard

We would like to drag multiple measures in the layout and have a list to filter the content like sales units, forecasted units,....so that users can select which one to use in chart.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration