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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Deny copy from folders without write permissions

In the Cognos Analytics interface; we would like to have the ability to deny or remove copy from folders that users do not have write access to. Currently there is no way of preventing users with read and traverse from copying reports and saving t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard, on crosstab viz add sort by summarized values

In Dashboards add sort function to the summary column field on a cross tab visualization type
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Swap Series and Categories

Add ability to quickly swap series and categories on a visualization - similar to swap columns and rows on a crosstab.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values

Dashboard visualizations, KPI widget: show distance in values to target value. Today it is only possible to see the distance in %.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration