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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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Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report output saved to multiple filesystems.

We would like to have the ability to save report outputs to multiple shared filesystems, where report output is save under folders who's name relates to the actual reports names. CASE number for reference:TS000067038
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Cognos to connect to and query materialized views in Google BigQuery.

Querying a materialized view is often more performant than querying a standard view because the results are precomputed and cached. This is ideal for dashboards and reports that run predictable and repeated queries. A BigQuery materialized view is...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 3 Not under consideration

Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Reset dashboard to default settings.

Reset dashboard to default settings with e.g. a button. -reset filters in "explorer view" . (not filters done in edit mode) -reset drilldowns with the same button It must be easy for a user to reset a dashboard to default settings in an easy way. ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Interactive mode crosstab wrong summary when expanding

When running a report in interactive mode having a cross tab (dimensionally modeled) and you have a set and a summary on rows. When expanding one member the summary double counts the result since both the member and the children now are visible. T...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration