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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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List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Tab in tabs in dashboards

We would like to be able to create subtabs in dashboards. A tab consisting of one or many sub-tabs. This would make it easier to structure the data in a dashboard.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Auto Hiearchy for Date Fields

In Dashboards Datefields are often used for drill down functionality. In the moment you have to define manually for every date-field in a datamodule or directly in the dashboard (if you use a Framework Manager Model) a hiearchy.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Identify all report Views linked to a report.

Hello, We would like to have the possibility to identify all report views linked to a report to anticipate a new delivery on a specific report and its impact on existing report views.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration