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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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Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization per Cognos "Group" (not just "Roles")

Currently in C11 customization is only available per security "Role". If your security is based on Cognos "Groups" then you can not use customization. Please make it available for security "Groups" as well!
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

“Select & Search prompt” is not available when using a Data Module source

When creating a new report based on a Data Module, users lose the Select and Search prompt, which is available in a Framework Manager package source. Please refer to the attached which also contains other enhancement requests.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Scanning the content of uploaded Excel file

This subject has been brought to our attention by our clients, they need to make sure uploaded files are scanned for malicious scripts or codes. We deal with many banks and its part of the audit.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration