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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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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...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Undo functionality with action history

In IBM Cognos Analytics, the current undo functionality is limited to a single-step reversal, which can be inefficient and error-prone during editing. I propose an enhancement inspired by Microsoft Excel’s undo feature, where users can view a chro...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Submitted

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization - legend labels should be localized for any output format

The waterfall visualization is only localized when using HTML output.Other output formats like PDF generates for example legend labes only in English. Neither product nor content language has any impact. Alternative the labels should be customizab...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization localization should be triggered by content language

Actually the Waterfall visualization uses product language to localize information.We noticed that the language chosen for the legend label depends on product language. Furthermore the legend label is hard coded in English when report out is not H...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Case of letters in objects paths

There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted