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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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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easiest border info reading in properties border popup (direct instead of mouseover) - Report Studio

I have been developping on report studio for months and I find it very difficult to create/ modify borders.One of the biggest problem is that it is difficult to know which border you are modifying.Would it be possible to have an enhancement on thi...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

backspace does not function correctly with input other than type="text"

The following HTML5 input types do not support backspacing: It looks like the file /pat/halcchl_block.js is attaching an event listener to disable the backspace, with an exception for text areas and input type="text". Please include the previously...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

How to set format for Number and Percent both on the Chart ?

Hi there,We use Loan Outstanding Amount measure which is a direct measure come from Data Base (no calculation). The value displayed incorrect for both case (default and percentage) Please see the attachment "Format on the chart for Number and Perc...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More default options to set in individual user preferences to make the system more personalized

We are missing options to be set for individual users on their preferences. Like default options to be selected in run as / delivery (by defualt disable prompting, by default send report by email, by default attach report output)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate setting for compression of PDF reports vs Active reports

As it is now, there is a setting that determine the number of megabytes an attachement can be before it is compressed. This is on the delivery, batch and report server. However, the same setting is used for sending mobile reports to mobile devices...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select All/Multi- Bulk Selection for Job steps

In our new 11.1.7 CA environment, we are testing all of the different functions that we use to ensure everything is pretty much the same. While testing, we came across one functionality that is quite different. When going to the properties of a jo...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto Correct Feature

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over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration