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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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Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Align font size of KPI & summary visualizations on a dashboard tab

We'Id like to have the font size of KPI and summary visualizations aligned, at least on a tab. Typically on dashboards KPI/Summary visualizations are aligned adjacent on a dashboard tab, with identical visualization box sizes. To make things look ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow use of query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration