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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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Cognos - Simultaneous Login

It was observed that parallel session and authorization check is possible. It was observed that the user can login into the account simultaneously from 2 different browsers.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possible to empty datamodul cache using macro against database table

Cache is great for performance, but this need to manage if souces are updated during the day. In dynamic cube we are able refresh based on schedule or ETL with use of DCADMIN. Today is it possible to set expiry time with use of Macro in datamodul....
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add custom sub-levels via extensions

We want to limit the folder access to the clients by customizing the left side navigation bar and adding custom menus. Because of the folder structure and the topics, the best would be if we could add sub-menus. However we can't use the following ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add data formatting properties for the percentage values(Display % )in the visualization(pie chart)

Description How can I change the formatting of the percentage values to no decimals (currently shown with 1 decimal point)? We have enabled the display % property in the pie chart. But couldn’t find any option “number of decimal places” for percen...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create package from TM1 datasource having multiple connection without using FM

We would like to have the option to create a package directly in cognos administration for tm1/cognos planning data source type (without using Framework Manager) when there is several data connections defined for the data source. Today when we are...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

DataItem's and Filter's names changing/notchanging both in C11.0.5 and C11.0.6

Data items' names are changing in copied queries.Flter's names are changing in copied queries. Data item's names within the calculations are changing in copied queries. Also they are NOT changing when the queries are reffered. Feature of changing ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Server to support SAS JDBC

In the list of vendor-support client driver, SAS JDBC is not supported. RHB Group has made Cognos as enterprise business analytics tools, that connect to various data sources as their data strategy for RHB Bank Group. At the moment, the SAS ODCB d...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration