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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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Cognos Analytics

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Store filter selections per user in shared Dashboards

In shared Dashboards it would be great if each user can store his individual filter values in drop down filters so when he access the dashboard later it would be loaded by using those filters.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add SCIM support for CA

SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identity_Management) An integ...
about 6 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
about 19 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Submitted
697 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration
606 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...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration