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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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Cognos Analytics

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Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Content Store Data

Ultimate Software takes user requests for future development actions. The largest request we have by far is the ability for a BI administrator to be able to report on how their content is secured at this time. Currently, for auditing purposes, cus...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Add Sort Option to Map visualization

We want to visualize monitoring alert data on a geo map. Every alert has a severity value and a related color (red=critical, ...). Currently there is no sort option availailable for e.g. the map point color data item. As a sort option is also avai...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Scheduled Content Execution Failure Notification

We have 1000+ scheduled content and 50 - 75% of scheduled content fail for various reasons. Many of our users have a set it and forget it mentality and never log back in to resolve the root cause of the scheduled report execution failure. Instead ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Always Include Edited Report Names in Audit Tables

When auditing is turned on, report names are included in the "COGIPF_RUNREPORT" table of the Audit Database depending on the circumstances of how it is run. The request is that if a report name is known, it should always be included in the audit t...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration