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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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Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Unprofessional PDF Printout of C11 Dashboard

Since the printing to PDF of a C11 dashboard is done using the browser's printing capability, the printout (pdf file) will always include a header (page number) and footer (URL address) that are not part of the dashboard but added by the browser (...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Write-back from a Cognos Analytics report into Planning Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics needs to be able to write-back int TM1/Planning Analytics database. This is necessary not only to reduce the amount of tools a business user dealing with planning and actual data needs to use, but also to allow Cognos the use ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Make "Run As" option available to Shortcuts

In Cognos 10.2.2, report consumers have the ability to select the "Run As" option from shortcuts, allowing the user to select the output format and delivery option prior to executing the report. In Cognos Analytics 11.x, this option is only availa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration