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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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Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
about 22 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Expand and collapse capability for hierarchical dimensions in cognos lists in report studio

The requirement by client is the tabular data should provide the facility to expand and collapse to see the breakdown of dimension with hierarchy. e.g. If user expands column A that contains hierchical dimension, it should expand to column B and s...
about 22 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
about 22 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime() in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or si...
about 22 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow IBM Cognos to connect to and query materialized views in Google BigQuery.

Querying a materialized view is often more performant than querying a standard view because the results are precomputed and cached. This is ideal for dashboards and reports that run predictable and repeated queries. A BigQuery materialized view is...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide Offline Availability for controller.js and controller-ddmUMWvp.js (Learn Panel / Assist Me Panel) in Cognos Analytics

Description / Background: After installing Cognos Analytics 12.0.4 FP1, the loading time of the Cognos home page is significantly increased. The reason is that the application tries to fetch external JavaScript files (controller.js and controller-...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted