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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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Cognos Analytics

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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

Custom Image for Welcome Page

Add a custom image file (corporate logo, for example) to the Cognos login, welcome or landing pages. The on-premise version allows for formal customers to load customizations, themes, extensions, welcome and login views to the Cognos Analytics ser...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add option to create report view from report shortcut for users

Add the same option for users as in Cognos BI 10.2.2. to create report views from report shortcuts in the Cognos analytics portal.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selecting other data module in reporting

Selecting other data module in reporting: make it possible to have two data modules in the report module next to a package
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future 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 ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module

Unable to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration