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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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515 VOTE

Drop Downs in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment we can drag an item to the dashboard and it creates a hierarchy that can be selected from to change data. If we can change this to a drop down, similar to what can be done on report studio prompt pages, then it...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 20 Delivered
144 VOTE

More than one Data Module to be included in one report

Can't use more than one Data Module in a report
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
139 VOTE

Support web services as data sources

Allow a Cognos report or dashboard to retrieve data directly from the JSON end point of a REST based web service.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

KPI Visualization

When using Dashboards to display KPIs, the Number widget/visualization shows only the number (and name) from the data source.This RFE suggests a (new) KPI Visualization that instead takes two numbers and can be adjusted / customized using properti...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

"Union All" Feature request in Data Modules in CA11

We started using the data module tool much more and realized how convenient it is to do calculations, filters and merge data between multiple sources.But we feel that adding a union all (we already have join) feature in the data modules will signi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cascading Filter Prompts on Dynamic Dashboards

Global Filters and Tab Filters on Dynamic Dashboards cannot be assigned a Cascade Parent. Users can create List Widgets to use as filters but this takes up screen space (see requests for "drop down" style text/list widgets to get around this issue...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered