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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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 Excel sheet numbering

Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

option to hide "My Credentials (Manage)" in the UI

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us we need to hide My credentials (Manage) option
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboards: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package

TS001075080:CAR11: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package.From IBM: I heard back from the Offering Manager this afternoon. The ability to create a calculation involving two separate sources...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment. Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration