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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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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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Eliminate Cognos Mobile App Single Point of Failure

Re-enable the Cognos Mobile app to communicate with Cognos Analytics through a load balancer (ACE/F5). Reference IBM Case #TS000101959
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Users should have the ability to see/change timezone assocation of schedules

Users should be able to explicitly define a timezone for a scheduled execution of a report, event or other Cognos object irrespective of their timezone setting under user preferences. The scheduling interface should allow you to select a timezone ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive filtering in the visualization map

Interactive filtering in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search Path visibility in Properties of an object

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were able to get the search path of the object from the properties menu. In Cognos 11 we have no possibility to get the search path of the object. The search path is a important information for us when searching for problems in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics 11.1 support for TLS 1.3

To allow the product to support current security standards, TLS 1.3 should be added to the security options for Cognos Analytics 11.1.x
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory as a Datasource

We use AUDIT + AD data to look at the environment utilization. Having Active Directory details within the reporting environment helps us connect to the users and their managers readily (with the email or phone info available in AD). If we see long...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration