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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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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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Cognos Analytics

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Need a way to find list of reports that are written using user-defined sql

We need a way to find a list of reports that are written using user-defined sql.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime() in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or si...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Cognos to connect to and query materialized views in Google BigQuery.

Querying a materialized view is often more performant than querying a standard view because the results are precomputed and cached. This is ideal for dashboards and reports that run predictable and repeated queries. A BigQuery materialized view is...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 3 Not under consideration

Allow to unregister Dispatchers before starting CM for first time

When an upgrade via a DB backup/restore is done, if both CA versions (old and new) will be ON, it is expected that "old" version Dispatchers to be already registered in the "new" site, because "old" and "new" DB's data is the same. So, when starti...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Incorporate Image Service into the base product.

Incorporate Image Service into the base product so you do not need a additional docker installation of a Linux container so organizations will not install docker.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

current_date or current_timestamp Cognos Functions Enhancement to enable Query to be re-used for DQM mode

When current_date or current_timestamp is used, query reuse is disabled since the values for those functions would need to be cached to allow reuse. Since the cashed value might not be the same as the current value it is considered a data integrit...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to set userid/password via script

We do not have access to production servers and have to request operators to set the userid/passwords for Cognos CM and RS service. We do not want to manage passwords in clear text.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Apply R/Y/G Score Thresholds to Multiple Items in Cognos Administration

Currently, Cognos Analytics Administrators must manually set Red/Yellow/Green (R/Y/G) score thresholds (such as Success Percentage, Average Response Time, etc.) for each dispatcher, data source, and other monitored items individually. There is no ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration