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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add zoom function to Active Report Viewer

It would be nice to have zoom functionality in the Active Report Viewer client to get rid of the scrollbars when opening report on a laptop with smaller screen.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable OpenID Connect for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

We would like to use OpenID Connect instead of creating secrets every year for the connection to our Azure AD. See also case number TS012088126
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cancel Running Report for all Users

It should be possible for all users to cancel their Report running in the background. With R10 the functionality to Suspend a running Report was delivered, but we also need the ability to Cancel their running Reports for all users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a date between filter on scheduled jobs, events and reports to the NOT admin variant

When you want to check the scheduled jobs, events and reports and you are not an admin, you should be able to use a between date filter. Now you can select only 1 date instead of more
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to limit concurrent queries per user

We would like to have the advanced option to limit the parallel execution for jobs per user.In case user launches a job with many reports inside and select execution in parallel, this single user can overload the servers by taking all resources. T...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 or 11.2.x versions signed install and Signed DLL and exec files

IT security Team is asking us to All cognos install files -DLL and exe needs to be signed. That way it can be trusted from security standpoint of view
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration