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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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607 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
143 VOTE

Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

search current folder

1. Would like to be able to set a folder to use as the starting point for a search. 2. Would like to be able to start a search from the current location when navigating through folders in content store
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report references within Dashboards

It would be a nice to have feature to reference a report or an object within a report within a dashboard. Similar to the same functionality as Cognos Workspace had -- where you could reference a list or crosstab of a report and link the items toge...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending 1 email with multiple reports for a scheduled job

Looking for ability to create a single scheduled job that runs multiple reports (or report booklets) but send them all attached to a single email when completed.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration