IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    107 VOTE

    +/- buttons for column grouping

    The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release
    116 VOTE

    Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

    Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

    Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

    Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration

    Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

    It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    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 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

    There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted
    110 VOTE

    Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

    In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

    Hover Text on Dashboard

    Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

    An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

    Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

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