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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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R Integration in Cognos Analytics

Similar to Jupyter notebook support, It would be great to have R support in Cognos. Capability to process R Script using data sources in Cognos Parameters could be passed into R Script via Prompt for e.g. user can choose x periods history to f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Restrict Exploration from specific Packages

Provide the ability to restrict access to specific packages with the Exploration tool, as allowed with with tools, such as Report Studio. Not all packages may be designed for optimal use with Exploration. The users may need access to one package f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Flexible management of restricting user’s rights

For instance if some employee is on vacation, and according internal rules I have to restrict user’s rights to Cognos now it is not so easy if it is possible at all.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Getdate not supported in Cognos Analytics

Other SQL functions can be used in Cognos Analytics but getdate() is not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's ve...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add another permission set which encompasses Execute/Traverse only

Pre-defined permissions sets in the list are not customizable in Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 (version 11 onward). Need a new one which provides Execute and Traverse only. Please see the ticket: TS001873295 for details.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Folder Level Capabilities

While capabilities are attached to studio and package, capabilities really need to apply to any object within the Cognos environment. The case in point, when trying to give Report Studio capabilities to user, assigning the capabilities at the pack...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists