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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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Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Measure Icon on Fact Query subjects in Report Studio and Query Studio as in Framework Manager

If Report Studio and Query Studio display measure icon at the query subject level would be easy to differentiate between facts and dimensions. Framework Manager does display measure icon (scale icon) for the query subjects apart from actual measur...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending SMS Message to users mobile from Cognos BI

Hi Team: We would like to send a text message to users mobile devises (mobile recipients) to tell the user that a report is available or not whenever job fails. Currently there isn't a way to send a text message to the mobile recipient in existing...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit tables - Customer would like to see report names when running a report in Workspace Advance and Report Studio Instead

When customer opens a report that has been previously saved in Workspace Advanced and Report Studio and runs report interactively the report is audited as adHocReport
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh| Use of Web Fonts in IBM Cognos

Client would like to see IBM Cognos enhanced to be able to support the use of web fonts like those provided by Google.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Y-Axis scaling

Current behavior of the legacy PGSDK charting engine renders an empty chart using 0 to 500 for percentage format by default. We would like to have the ability to set this to 0 - 100.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration