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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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Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to adjust attributes of users via REST API such as the tenant-id

With use of the REST API we create users in our multi tenant environment to automate the onboarding of new customers and new users. While doing this we would like to assign a user directly to the correct tenant. We experience that adding the tenan...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Allow Cognos to be automatically redirected on session timeout

According to this IBM Technote (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011410) there is currently no way to redirect to an external product's logon screen. This causes undesirable behavior when linking Cognos to our SSO page. We are ab...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Connection between widget and filter area filters

I would like to specify connection between each filter and each widget. Currently you can't define what widget work with which filter (from filter area). Its all or nothing.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted