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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Unable to Copy or Move reports Search Window

When searching for reports , there is no option to copy or move reports to a different folder. This can be helpful to copy/move reports from a large folders having multiple reports with similar name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Simplify Management Of Dynamic Cubes

Simplify management of dynamic cubes so that they are easier to set up, administer, and keep running. In particular, make it so that you can publish them with a routing rule, but NOT have to also define them directly on a dispatcher. I'd suggest a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Disable selection and copy text in non-interactive reports

We would like that the option of selecting and coping text from non-interactive reports to be disabled. At this moment, there is no option to disable these features and users can copy details from the Cognos reports and use them outside the applic...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

There is no control over how calculate items are calculated at a summary level as they are in Report Authoring.

I have a problem with a calculated expression on a Dashboard. It works good on all the rows except the last one, where the total value isn't calculated. I also can't format the column as a percentage
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Isolate Cognos image location from custom images

Currently customer custom images are uploaded to ../webcontent/bi/images. This is the same location as where Cognos specific images are stored. Requesting that the Cognos specific images and customer images be saved to independent locations.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration