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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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Data module: Sorting of query subjects and query items

Add sorting possiblity for query subjects and query items in data module editor like it is possible in Framework Manager.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data modules: context explorer

Data modules should have a context explorer like in Framework Manager. This is very useful for complex/bigger models with many relationships.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Feature to hide output format from 'Run as' screen

Currently the features to hide output formats (such as Excel and Excel data) via the role customizations are applicable only to the toolbars within the viewer screens. Even though Excel data is removed for a role, the Run as screen still shows tho...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Call pre-executed Active Report output version

The customer wants to call a pre-executed report output version. If we use the URL that is in the new "share"-option in C11R05 the report is executed, the saved output-version is not called.If we use the following syntax the cognos navigation on t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Renewing credentials

'Automatically renew trusted credential' in Cognos Analytics 11 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998776 In SSO it is impossible to automatically renew trusted credential
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration