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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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Settings/Properties for Tab Filters

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to suggest some enhancements that could significantly improve the functionality and user experience of tab filters in IBM dashboards. Currently, while we have the option to utilize tab filters, ther...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Using ECDSA root for RSA certificaten

To secure Cognos analytics internally, an internal RSA certificate has been created. The root of our internal certificates are all ECDSA. We can not change this, because then all our certificates no longer work. It would be good if Cognos Analytic...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set filter - case insensitive

When working with filter set and choosing a filter with caption or attribute. The filter is case sensitive. I would like it to be case insensitive
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted