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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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Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Data security filters on datasets

As a data modeler I want to secure data based on datasets via security filters in data modules. Same type of security filters as for database tables. We have an urgent case now where a dashboard based on uploaded files need to have data security i...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

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 (...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Apply global filters to prompts when using drill through on dashboards

When you add a report to a dashboard using drill through, the used global filters should also appear in the drop down list when you match the columns with the prompts
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration