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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics Dashboard integation with TM1 Planning Analytics

Creating a Dashboard in Cognos Analytics against a TM1/Planning Analytics data source needs better integration. TM1 users become comfortable creating Cube Views so there is an opportunity to integrate the systems by exposing Cube Views in Cognos A...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Enable the possibilities to a Cognos Expert to add new Vendor Specific Function entry for not supported database (eg. Redshift)

The purpose of Cognos is to allow each user not to know the language of the Database used, lacking the list of functions into the Expression Definition for some databases, the goal of the product fails. users are not helped to understand what are ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Logoff URL Improvements

There are two scenarios that don't seem to be currently supported in relation to the logoff URL that would be very beneficial. If a session times out due to inactivity, it doesn't appear to redirect to the logoff URL, if configured, which can lead...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration