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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Ordering the fields on Data Module.

Ordering the fields on Data Module.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Javascript for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos

Esri Maps for Cognos provides Esri mapping and GIS capabilities in Cognos reports. Esri requires JavaScript support in order for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos to work. The SDK + IBM Cognos v11 does not support embedding JavaScript/HTML in interactive m...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using Ystart drop zone should result in having an adjusted value axis starting point

If you use the Ystart options in a column chart in dashboarding, the columns will effectively start at the selected Y-value, but the resulting visualisation will just show an empty space below the Y-value.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monthly subscription

CA11 introduced 'subscriptions' which currently only allows selection on day (monday -> sunday) and time. It would be useful to also have monthly/quaterly... options, same as what is available in scheduling. All the more as they appear as regul...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extension Items languaje localization

It would be very useful to gain the option to localize the names of the extesions items, such of dashbords/reports/.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration