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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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Query Studio Support for DataModules

Query Studio is the self-service tool used by all our end users. Currently QS does not support data modules. With Data Modules becoming so popular, it is important they be supported by QS, otherwise the usage of DataModules will be very limited.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Forecasting not available with Package included in Data Module

Forecasting is being used on a visualization from a relational source only. The data module contains relational tables and a package. The issue is the forecast does not work unless we remove the package from the data module. However, the package i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to change the order of dimensions when using an SSAS Multi/Tabular Cube in CA11 Report

Ability to change the order of dimensions when using an SSAS Multi/Tabular Cube in CA11 Report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Use My Credentials" option is not available to normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment

"Use My Credential" option is missing for normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment, the option is available to only administrator.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI integration using LDAP group authorization takes 20 seconds to login into Cognos BI

Logon into Cognos BI takes 20 seconds when LDAP groups are used for authorizations. Please provide sub-group starting point for searching LDAP groups.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration