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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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Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Excel Tab Names

When outputting report booklet to Excel, there is no way to name the tabs. Ideally, those names should be controlled from properties of the Report Booklet reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RFE for getting LTPA support within Cognos Analytics 11 built-in Liberty Server

This RFE addresses the need to get support for LTPA SSO with security role for latest Cognos Analytics v11 on Intel Linux Server with build in Liberty Server.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bar Vizualization with data table (like in Excel)

If you insert a chart in Microsoft Excel you have the option to generate a crosstab below the chart with all the data used.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Subscription without scheduling capability

We use cognos analytics version 11.0.6/7 and we have disabled scheduling capabilities for end users but want to retain their subscription functionality.As per the PMR subscription and scheduling capabilities are inter-related but we need only one ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a visual indicator to the interface to show which objects have a schedule

Please add a visual indicator to show users which objects in a list have a schedule. This is something that has always been difficult for our users in previous versions and remains difficult in Cognos Analytics. The only way to see if an object ha...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Modify subscription options to show/remove or change default

Allow a role (or all roles) going thru > chosing properties > customization > features, that running a report and subscribing to it, allows you to remove the print report delivery option. Also allow to change the default to send report by...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration