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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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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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Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add Graded Scale conditional formatting to Reporting Lists and Crosstabs, and Dashboard crosstabs

Excel has Graded Scale conditional formatting... when we are asked to replicate a report that uses Graded Scale formatting, it is not possible in Cognos
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drillthrough option to open in New window

It will be good to have the ability to drill-through from dashboard to open in new window, like from Report if we can have check box to select this option it will be nice
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Platform support for Docker Container

We are trying to explore the possibility of having to install cognos on a docker container to maximize our hardware resources. Having it on the docker will save the OS running on every VM that was build from physical.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration