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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to pass prompt values in parameterized URLs to Dashboards.

An external application uses Cognos Report URLs with Prompt parameters to open Cognos reports filtered with prompts values and want to have the same functionality available for Cognos Analytics Dashboards.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's very...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on data field i.e. Green for on progress, red for delayed

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on value in the field i.e. Green color for on progress, red for delayed and others
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration