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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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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

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 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

Row version of math functions

Math functions in Cognos works on individual field in a column fashion. I need to use math function on a row instead. The particular functions that I'm using are aggregate and maximum but all math functions could be used in this manner. Especially...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Job or schedule xml editing or visibility.

My colleagues and I suggest making available in Cognos Administration the ability to edit or at least view Job or Schedule XML.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display ordinance-designated city in Japan with map visualization

In the "map" visualization,We are currently unable to display the "designated cities" (Seirei sitei toshi) in Japan."Ordinance-designated cities" are the 20 major cities in Japan, and include major cities such as Yokohama and Sapporo.Many Japanese...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration