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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics Connectivity to MongoDB Atlas SQL using JDBC

We are testing connectivity between CA and Atlas SQL Interface (MongoDB Cloud DB) using the JDBC Connection by passing all the required parameters as per the guidelines and the test data source connection ends with an error message - (not certifie...
about 9 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Need Print Report Capability in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Our finance users use the "Print Report" capability in Perspectives. Using existing spreadsheets that include both TM1 formulas and excel formulas, they print these which resolve the tm1 formulas but maintain the excel fformulas and then use the b...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Blockchain integration as a data source

Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

My parameters behavior don't have expected behavior

When you're report use the "My parameters" functionnality and save as report view (by using the "save as report view" button), the value of the selection of the "My parameters" is stored in the report view details. When the values has been stored ...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

A visual indicator on reports for fields with filters.

Users would benefit from having a visual indicator on the header column title that makes it easier for users to select a filter to use on that column.
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
697 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for Dashboards and Data Modules

Like it exists for Reports, it will be great to have a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for DataModules and Dashboards.
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
606 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration