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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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Restore ability to modify a schedule without changing credentials

In Cognos 10.2.1 and earlier versions, we were able to update a schedule without changing the credentials. We would like this functionality restored in Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save Report to Uploaded CSV File or consume directly in Data Module

Create option to save a report output so that it gets directly uploaded into Cognos again as an external file and can then be consumed by a Data Module. Or alternatively have Data Modules consume reports directly We currently have about 20 Cognos ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Report View option for Delivery in Scheduling

When Scheduling the report in Cognos Analytics,users are provided with the option to Save the report, but not as report view. With Security, the users cannot save the report in Team Content. This is causing issues when scheduling the report. Case ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

to be able to define drill through on any other package, not only supported on default package

We developed some reports with multiple packages. We are trying to define more than 1 drill through definitions on one report. On this report, the first drill through definition is successfully created after we set the package as default. The seco...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search All My Content Folders with Search Engine in Cognos 11

Would it be possible to have the Cognos 11 search engine look in everone's My Content folder to find objects. Right now, it can only searh Team Content and my own My Content.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration