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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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Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export files REST API Call for Script Automation

We need export file/package REST API call for script automation but there is no call related to that in this reference cognos REST API doc - https://dhcsdevtestcog.ca.analytics.ibm.com/api/api-docs/#/ Impact in our promotional process automationfr...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

Addition of trend lines on visualizations in dashboard currently no in dashboard but we have these in report studio old charts.

As the name you kept as Cognos Analytics and always say AI but we dont have a basic option of AI is addition of trendlines for visualizations in dashboard but you can see the attachment we have trendlines/baselines/markers/notes all of them in old...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show the Prompt header or title name for second prompt when there is a cascading between two prompts in interactive mode.

Currently Second prompt header or title showing only when we run the report in non-interactive mode.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to support Chat/embedded comments in dashboarding chart

In order to support the IBM OT workflow and the EPM Executive Dashboard, there is a requirement to allow people to exchange chat messages and/or embed comments while viewing a graph
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted