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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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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Accessible Prompts

We need all prompt types to be accessible and 508 compliant. We have reports that require a user be able to input a date range, but IBMs documentation indicates the calendar date prompts are not accessible.
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Planned for future release

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted