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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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Cognos Analytics

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Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uncheck boxes when creating a new view from data module

If you want to create a view from an existing package or cube within the data module, all data is first retrieved and the checkboxes are ticked. This takes a long time with large packages. It would be better if these checkboxes are turned off by d...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Dashboard scaling "Fit To Window"

Make a dashboard fit to window, so that you don't have to scroll down but always see the whole dashboard. A dashboard is not always 100% responsive because it doesn't automatically fit the browser window. Instead there is a vertical scroll bar to...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Display of Data Labels alongside location names on MAP Visualizations

System: MAP Visualization in Cognos AnalyticsActor: Plotting Measurable quantities on Maps alongside Location When we see a MAP Visualization on a REPORT or DASHBOARD module in Cognos Analytics, we see the Color variances, the Location Accuracies,...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto size folder panel based on folder path and object name

Make the folder/object panel auto size based on the folder path and object name. Currently the panel can be manually sized but this is something that most applications offer automatically and is expected by our users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration