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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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Add Missing Report Outout Formats to Fully Interactive Viewer

When viewing a Fully Interactive report, allow the user to run the report in Excel, Excel Data and CSV formats.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page. Provide the option to setup and maintain a banner on the Connections page. This banner would have the flexibility to be setup with messaging to inform a user that report data was updated or not from batch. ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Change prompt button color for Report Studio.

Would like the ability to change the prompt button color for Report Studio using GlobalReportStyles.css. Statement from APAR PM83716: The GlobalReportStyles.css applies styles for when running Reports. Report Studio uses Design Model which is not ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists