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Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

In Metadata display for Reporting and Dashboards with an OLAP source the cube should be represented with a cube icon and not a box with eyes...

Currently in Metadata display for Reporting and Dashboards the icon associated with a cube is shown as a large box linked to 2 smaller boxes above. Presumably this is an Entity Relationship I believe a more intuitive and representative icon would ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhanced Visualizations in Reporting/Dashboards – CUG2026

A unified, feature-complete visualization type supporting master-detail, SVG output, high-resolution export (including PDF), and new chart types such as native Gantt charts.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

OLAP Support in Data Modules – CUG2026

Support DMR or Dynamic Cubes with proper dimensional modeling and hierarchical navigation in data modules. Same as https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CAOP-I-398 from 2018 Is now labeld as Planned for future release
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted