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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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Expose the Change of Field Properties like (Sort,Usage) for FM Package as Source for Cognos Analytics Dashboard

We are Currently Using IBM Cognos Analytics 11-R10 in our environment, For Dashboard Development we are using FM-DQM Package as source and we are facing issue in changing the query item properties for example : changing the sort options, aggregate...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Cognos Treeprompt

The existing Tree-Prompt ist not sufficient for complex selections, especially in large dimensions.An enhancement would be preciated.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Defaults - Reports

Would like a place in cognos administration that you can set 'global defaults'. I am particularly looking at wanting to set report defaults. I do not care if they are changeable, just want to set the defaults more pertinent to our company. On repo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL should be supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console

As of Cognos Analytics v12.1.1, PostgreSQL is still not supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console. It is a supported datasource for Audit: PostgreSQL audit deployment and model - IBM Documentation
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted