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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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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos 11.0.7 "Link to Package" functionality is not Available

Product : Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 Issue : Users are facing difficulties to re link their package in Cognos 11.0.7 reports. Description : Users used to change the package (Re link) for their report by just clicking the report properties and then by...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Please add the schedule owner back to the interface

In Cognos Analytics, in the entry properties, we can see the entry owner, but in the Schedule details we cannot identify the owner of the schedule, which could be someone entirely different than the entry owner. Please add the schedule owner back ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted