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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.

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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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

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

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.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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

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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Allow configuration to modify default subject line.

Allow Congnos Analytics to be able to use the EmailOptions xml to set a default parameters like Cognos 10
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to audit all customizations made for Cognos Analytics roles

We have taken advantage of the customization options provided in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, but we are finding it is difficult to see what customizations are applied in our environment at a high level. We are keeping a spreadsheet of the customizati...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default Location for Report Views should not be root of Team Content

Interactive reports only: when user selects to save a rendered report output as a View, the Save As dialog always defaults to the root of Team Content. It would be more intuitive if the default destination for the report view would match the locat...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration