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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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Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Add a date between filter on scheduled jobs, events and reports to the NOT admin variant

When you want to check the scheduled jobs, events and reports and you are not an admin, you should be able to use a between date filter. Now you can select only 1 date instead of more
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OLAP Modelling for Data Modules (Dimensions / Hierarchies / Levels) like Framewormanager

Like in Frameworkmanager we need to define Dimensions, Hierary, Levels in Datamodules. This is because we need to build complex reports, which we can build very fast, with less complexity with Cubes. Dynamic Cubes and Transformer Cubes. We want to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add CA integration with Github

We would like to have native cognos analytics integration to github to store all sources/specs (reports/dashboards/..) to implement easily CI/CD. Today we use third party tools to version and deliver but with github integration it would be more na...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration