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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- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted