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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to remap a Data items in a data module

Current problem: No easy way to remap data items of a table with re-named items or new items with the same logic. If a table item changes name or your DB developer changes the Capital or other settings there is no easy way to relink the Data ITEM ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to save Dashboard/Story for offline use

Ability to save, export or otherwise consume a Cognos Analytics dashboard or story while disconnected from the Cognos server. I know this has been declined in the past but I continue to get asked for this in pre-sales and consulting engagements. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Relative path for images used in dashboards and story's like in reports

After export/import from onprem to cloud all images remain intact in reports because we use relative paths. Because we could not use relative paths in story's and in dashboards, this became a problem for us now. We had to do a search on an export ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted