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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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Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Custom Image for Welcome Page

Add a custom image file (corporate logo, for example) to the Cognos login, welcome or landing pages. The on-premise version allows for formal customers to load customizations, themes, extensions, welcome and login views to the Cognos Analytics ser...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Use of On premise Life Cycle Manager with IBM Cloud

Currently, It is not possible to use on premise LCM to access Cognos analytics on the cloud current environments and we get SSL errors. It will be good to have LCM available on premise to be able to control access and utilize Citrix environment fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Analysis Studio in Cogno Analytics on the Cloud

We have a customer migrating to Cloud via the Bridge to Cloud program. They are currently leveraging a decent number of PowerCubes, on premises, utilizing Analysis Studio. Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud doesn't enable Analysis Studio, relegat...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Installation progress details in Silent installation

Hi Team, Recently i used congos 11 analytics server installation on our premise and used Command line procedure as silent installation with response file. I observed that while installation it is not giving any progress of installation procedure...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

(on cloud) expand Excel output to 1,048,576 rows from 11.6

Your Excel features on the 'on premises' are not available for the multi-tenant environment. Expanding the Excel output to 1,048,576 will take advantage of Excel row expansion that has been available for decades.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add update Key functionality to Secure Gateway UI

Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics Cloud are often used by Companies who lack the IT infrastructure capable of hosting PA or CA. The use the Secure Gateway Client to connect to on-premise data sources can be complicated for these users to use...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration