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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Start a histogram positioned in the LAST date

If the histogram represents the daily evolution, it would be good the chart to start with the last date selected as the data within the chart is dynamically changing every day, adding a new date. So although one can sort the date asscending or des...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orienting column text Vertically in a list

HR Users would like to present reports to upper mgmt with this formatting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to secure specific folders with password or to hide them in Cognos Analytics

Ability to secure specific folder with password or to hide it in Cognos Analytics.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Enhance fault handling of Cognos BI in case of missing services

If distributed Cognos env or just single install.Enhance the fault handling if one or more service are (temporarily) missing/down in the way to buffer/queue the request instead of many failed requests causing many failed report execution
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Governor Setting Accessibility within Cognos Connection

Expose the governor settings on the Package Settings page in Cognos Connection and allow for the settings to be altered. For new packages I would default the exposed settings using the values defined in the Model. For re-publishing an existing pac...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to dynamically add missing dates to a report that don't exist in the database

When creating reports off a database that does not have a complete date dimension (meaning missing dates in the database). Cognos should be able to fill in the missing dates dynamically. For example:
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map drill-thru support in Workspace for listening widget prompts

We would like to use the Map drill-thru functionality to act as a master prompt for widgets listening in a multi-widget Workspace , whereby the other Workspace widgets use the pass-thru map variable as the Prompt value.
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Business Glossary option in data modules

Hello, It would be very helpful to be joined to search Business Glossary (or internal Wiki) to retrieve additional information about the fields and tables in a data module. For the time being, this option only exists in the Report module, but it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration