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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Updated replacement for Analysis Studio

We need an updated interface to replace Analysis Studio legacy application. As of now, there are no equivalent capabilities that are easy-to-use adhoc query capabilities of Analysis Studio. Our company has relied heavily on this tool and now that ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Cube designer supports Denodo Datasource

At this moment IBM does not support the Cognos Analytics clients like Framework Manager and Cube Designer in combination with Denodo, We are within a migration from Netezza (End of Life) to Db2/Denodo Denodo supports Cognos (So tells their website...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Subsets should be displayed as hierarchies

Since IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.9 , Planning analytics Subsets are available for Dashboards and Reports. Unfortunately they are displayed and used as sets rather than hierarchies. In order to utilize the complete capabilities of TM1 it would be ne...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

search current folder

1. Would like to be able to set a folder to use as the starting point for a search. 2. Would like to be able to start a search from the current location when navigating through folders in content store
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration