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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero/null suppress functionality in Cognos Analytics reports

I am developing a crosstab report in Cognos Analytics that contain a large quantity of zeros in the crosstab intersection. I am trying to apply a zero suppress on the report so that any rows that have all zeros are suppressed from display. I have ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted