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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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Run schedule once option

Run schedule once option is not available for Users My schedules and activity management.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Report references within Dashboards

It would be a nice to have feature to reference a report or an object within a report within a dashboard. Similar to the same functionality as Cognos Workspace had -- where you could reference a list or crosstab of a report and link the items toge...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending 1 email with multiple reports for a scheduled job

Looking for ability to create a single scheduled job that runs multiple reports (or report booklets) but send them all attached to a single email when completed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

More detail information at the different steps of a job

A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Multi select dropdown prompts

Hi Team, We woud love to have the multi-select value prompts as a drop down along with list or check box.I could see this functionality when I run the reports on IPAD but in desktop the reports aren't pretty with a list box.We have over 10 prompts...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COVEA would deeply appreciate a support for relative path when using images in report AND dashboard

Covéa would like to use the same "wizard" for using images in report or dashboard, without needs of IT intervention.And support for relative path when using images in report AND dashboard
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted