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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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Ability to audit all customizations made for Cognos Analytics roles

We have taken advantage of the customization options provided in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, but we are finding it is difficult to see what customizations are applied in our environment at a high level. We are keeping a spreadsheet of the customizati...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email Delivery Pop up Box in Interactive Report

We have certain reports to be delivered to external users in PDF format. These reports were originally built in Cognos 10.2.2 in classic Viewer Mode. On prompt page, we have drill through button to run reports for different parameters and send to ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow configuration to modify default subject line.

Allow Congnos Analytics to be able to use the EmailOptions xml to set a default parameters like Cognos 10
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for custom URLs to Cognos Analytics dashboards including multilingual and accessibility parameters

We wish to have full support for custom URLs with all optional parameters extended to include Cognos Analytics dashboards. This should include support for multilingual parameters contentLocale and productLocale, as well as accessibility features p...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Delivered

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration