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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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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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Add object Tags to be reportable in Cognos

Tags are a great function within OpenPages. As a 'flag' that can be searched on this also needs to be added to the reporting framework so it can be utilised by Cognos. This will replicate the same behaviour when exporting objects with multiple ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rows Per Page - Configuration of Default Property

Rows per page property is set to a default 20 rows per page in lists, crosstabs, and other reporting objects. 20 is a very low number causing users frustration and many paginations. Other solutions provided thus far do not set the global value, ra...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration