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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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Base JMeter test plan for load and stability testing Cognos Analytics

It would very useful to have an Apache JMeter test plan to probe an IBM Cognos Analytics installs for stability under load. Just a base test plan that admins and consultants can use as a reasonable starting point in order to place Cognos Analytics...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for PGP encryption for Cognos Analytics cube transfers

Our Cognos Analytics model requires several cubes to be build on-prem and then sent to the cloud. We understand these are encrypted once present on the IBM CA Cloud server. However, we'd like the capability to encrypt before sending them. NM can a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Group Repeating Cells - Export to Excel Default Value

System: Cognos Analytics 11 ReportsActor: User running daily reports Cognos Analytics 11 Reports are scheduled to run daily to analyze different portions of the business and are commonly exported to Excel. Description: Our team writes Daily report...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to set e-mail sensitivity label

This is a customer submitted question. Can sensitivity labels be applied to scheduled Costpoint BI reports or are there plans to do so in the future? For added security and protection.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Reports: Queries: Add ability to search the data model within the "Data Item Expression Editor"

This idea applies to report editing . When you edit your Queries (Query Subjects) you have the option to search the data model (refer to attached screenshot named "SearchDataModelWithinQueriesPanel.png"). However, you cannot search the data model ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Tool Behavior and Email Notifications for Scheduled Reports

Currently, we have configured scheduled reports to be automatically generated and emailed to designated recipients at specific intervals. While this feature greatly enhances our workflow efficiency, we have noticed a behavior that we believe could...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Output embedded reports as part of PDF outputs in Dashboards

The Use case revolves around dashboards that have complex embedded reports as part of the dashboard output. When exporting to PDF, currently, embedded widgets are not shown in the PDF output. This hinders the ability to consolidate and share insig...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration