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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Ability to track changes in the permission groups/roles in the Cognos namespace

The internal audit department requires that changes to the groups or roles of the cognos namespace by administrators must be traceable. At least in a log that could be sent to a log server (is currently not logged according to the support).
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Delivered

Deactivate report object toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "report object toolbar" in the Cognos viewer with full interactivity when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Delivered

Copy and paste a value from a HTML list

As it was possible in C10, it would be very usefull to be able to copy a value from a page/query when executing in HTML and in interactive mode in order to paste out of Cognos Analytics. This is usefull when we have to check in external sofwares a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered

Optimize conversion to native sql for "_xxx_between" common functions in DB2 LUW and activate database processing for "_months_between"

Many of our reports use the "_months_between" common function which is locally processed in DQM. Local processing is generally a problem and we want to process as many workload as possible directly on database. A deeper look into what happens behi...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Delivered

Sort and Cascade Filters in Dashboards

It would be great if we can treat the top filters for dashboards as data items that we can sort on, filter to display values of interest and cascade.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered