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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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Create mailing label template

We have users that continue to try to create mailing labels. They continue to struggle with understanding repeater tables, formatting and alignment. Then after frustration, they drop the data to Excel and print.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to read data sets and load in database tables - not available per IBM in Cognos 11.1.R5-R7

is it possible to read data sets and load in database tables, whether content store is on database or external storage? Purpose is to reuse Cognos Dataset elsewhere for analysis, so want to load data in table or for any other analytical tool.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Business Glossary option in data modules

Hello, It would be very helpful to be joined to search Business Glossary (or internal Wiki) to retrieve additional information about the fields and tables in a data module. For the time being, this option only exists in the Report module, but it w...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ignore Case when migrating databases in Cognos Framework Manager

We are currently migrating from DB2 to Hive. The table and column names in DB2 are in upper case. Hive databases only contain lower table and column names. Apparently, hive is case insensitive and will not allow upper case table and field names. W...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Unable to drop Data items into email table

Unable to drop a data item into a table of an Email body. Always drops outside box
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: abilityt to delete rows or columns of a table in email body

Add functionality to insert or delete rows/columns of a table in an email body.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tables and report expression in the cells of the crosstab is embedded, and we want to use the elements of the intersection.

System: Cognos Business IntelligenceActor: Creating a report Description: We want to use the crosstab from the following two reasons.1. The iteration table, there is a problem that value from being displayed even all 0.2. The usability of crosstab...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessibility - Use Interactive Viewer or Classic Viewer

We are using Cognos 11.1 R5. We have developed Cognos reports using Interactive Viewer as we have content like Tables, List, Visualisations (line Chart, Bar charts, etc), maps, Custom Controls where Interactive Viewer is required. We would like to...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration