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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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Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted