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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Report Reference output for CSV and Excel Data

In addition to booklets, utilizing Report References is a great way of abstracting source reports from consumers. Different from Report Views, because you can't create a report view of a report view. But, you can create a report view from a report...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks inside Cognos Analytics

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks. Along with this would be the ability to create macros while you are inside the Cognos Report Editor. So when the report is run the macro Enable Workbook is created with the macros that one d...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Business Partners are looking for Cognos Adhoc reports open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool by default

As a part of Query Studio sunset in Cognos 11.2.2 Edge browser, Business partners are migrated their QS reports to RS reports .Business Partners are looking for Migrated Cognos Adhoc reports (RS) should open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Hidden Query related issue

A Report Studio report contains hidden query items. Is it possible to export to CSV and not show the hidden columns? Please see this technote as a workaround. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hidden-query-items-appear-csv I wrote PMR ## Response ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration