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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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


Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2015

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report Viewers
Actor: BI Model developer or Report user

The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of columns in the reports. Often, for the same measure they have to use different abbreviated names in different reports. Based on the integration between Cognos and Infosphere Business Glossary, the report users should understand the business meaning of the BI Report elements and the developers to validate it according to the defined Business Term.

Currently, when clicking on a Report Header to search the Glossary, only the Terms matching the Report label string are returned. The needed behaviour when searching the Glossary from within Cognos Report or Framework Manager is to get the Assigned Term to the underlying BI Report element.