IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Cognos Analytics

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    513 VOTE

    Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

    I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration
    144 VOTE

    Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

    This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
    about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration
    117 VOTE

    Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

    Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

    Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

    We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

    use a datamodule in Event Studio

    IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
    almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Future consideration

    Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

    Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
    almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

    Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

    Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

    Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

    We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 Future consideration

    Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

    I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
    over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

    Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

    User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

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