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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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Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Expand table visualizations on Dashboards when exporting to PDF

When exporting a Dashboard to a PDF users expect the option to have a table visualization to expand so all of the values are visible without a scrollbar, even if it expands on to additional pages.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Delivered

Support for API Keys for REST and SDK

We are in the process of moving to CA in the cloud and we switched authentication provider from AD to Okta. This causes a problem because Cognos requires a setting change in Okta called password grant to allow a user to authenticate using REST or ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Delivered

Enable Alerts in Cognos Mobile for OLAP data sources

In the mobile app we cannot currently set Alerts on visualizations that have an OLAP data source. In our case, most of our dashboards/visualizations are currently against PA cube data sources, and we are keen to use Alerts but can't. This impedes ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Delivered

Cognos integration with Databricks

Support Databricks Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 6 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Able to set Autocomplete attribute off on main login page.

Our Penetration testers found that the autocomplete attribute was not set for the password field on the main login page. After I opened up a support ticket IBM stated: Unfortunately, development won't accept missing 'autocomplete=off' as a defect....
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered