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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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Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

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

default sender per tenant (for schedules)

It should be possible to set the default sender per tenant (for schedules), not only for the entire server (set in cogconfig wiht the parameter "alwayUseDefaultSender" = true). For Subscritptions or the "run in background" function it should take ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update AI/Smarts independent of platform upgrade.

A way to train/update the CA AI model with the latest smarts independent from a platform upgrade would be very useful. Our AI user base wants the newer AI enhancements, but we aren't able to continuously upgrade CA every time a new version comes o...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 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

CA hyperlinks

The use of Hyperlinks in CA have changed compared to C10.xcertain URLs do not work, displaying a blank page.The user should be notified if the website they are attempting to access via HTML prevents the use of iframe.See details in the Use Case be...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration