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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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Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Tab in tabs in dashboards

We would like to be able to create subtabs in dashboards. A tab consisting of one or many sub-tabs. This would make it easier to structure the data in a dashboard.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Format of calculated members in Dynamic Cubes

Using a percentage aggregation in a calculated member, does not result in the Measure being formatted with Percent, when defined in a Dynamic Cube.This has been evaluated as Design Intent in APAR PI09144. This enhancement is created, as request to...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt vs. Tree prompt Settings

1- It would be useful to have a "Show Select All" option in the bottom of the Tree prompt box (same as Value prompt)2 - It would be useful that the same color would be used when hovering over the available options of a prompt box so that the color...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENH: Add ability to save the state of frozen column/row headers between report runs

When running an HTML report in Cognos viewer there is an option in the context menu to freeze the row or column headings. These options need to be selected every time a report is run. For reports where the user always has to scroll a lot and consi...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered