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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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UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Support grant_type "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in JWT auth

We are trying to connect from cognos on-prem to Trino database using JWT authentication via External Namespace. But connection fails because cognos does not support the grant type " grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in ADFS O...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration