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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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The ability to repoint a view to a different source report

Previous versions have allowed the source report of a view to be amended. This is no longer an option in 11.0.5
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create report directly from dataset

Need the ability to create reports directly from a dataset without having to define the dataset within a data module.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Session ID Stored in Insecure Cookie

Looks like Session ID Stored in Insecure Cookie while accessing cognos. check attached screen shot
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allowing incremental load for datasets

The customer needs to upload incremental data on a daily basis.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration