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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Configuration on the experience with downloadable report formats

When generate report with downloadable format, a popup/ tab page would be created and not closing automatically. This would make user confusion as the new window state "Download this report in Excel format". Suggest to add option to configure Cogn...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Capability to Cancel a Page Preview query in progress

When working in report studio, in the upper right, the author has a choice of working in three different page modes: page design, page preview and page structure. When in page preview mode, sometimes after making an edit, the query can take a long...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Restore the Report Studio interface customization feature

It is no longer possible to configure the Report Studio interface based on user profile. This is very disturbing because many customers consider that the RS interface is too rich for the users and look for a functional perimeter close to Query Stu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Update createDialog function to allow custom buttons

At the moment the createDialog function only allows for ok and cancel buttons. This is hardcoded into the function itself:__glassAppController.Glass.getCoreSvc('.Dialog').createDialog: createDialog(e) { const t = (0, a.default)("dialog"); (e = ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent on-demand menu from covering properties pane

Request for on-demand menu not to extend over the properties pane. Currently on-demand menu covers the properties pane when it appears close to right hand side of canvas. Aaarrrghh!!There is no option to control where the menu appears, only an opt...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add capability to input URL to local Mapbox server

For sites that are in closed networks, that have no internet connection there is an error when using mapping that goes to Mapbox. We would like to have the ability to define the Mapbox server location to be able to use this functionality.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Concurrent Login with Single Account [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A2]:

Improper Session Termination When a user logs out of the application or closes the application window, the corresponding session is not destroyed on the server. This allows a client-side session identifier to reactivate a session that the user in...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration