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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Add Google BiqQuery Functions to Cognos Analytics

Hi IBM, We are using Google BigQuery as one of the database sources to connect to Cognos Analytics on Cloud and using the packages to build reports and dashboards. Currently, we have to manually type in the Google BigQuery functions in the Model, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 4 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Anlytics mobile in Spanish

In cognos cognection, users can define the preferred language for the tool and everything they see from the browser they see in the defined language, but when they access cognos mobile they can only see the tool in English. For us it is important ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add threshold lines to line, bar charts to demarcate where a pre-set %of measured value appears.

We have a requirement to display threshold lines on a line chat in a dashboard as indicated in the attached file "Add2ThresholdLinesToLineChart.gif". What we want is a line through the graph to show 70% breach in Amber and another line through the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tooltip in Cognos Line chart(11.1Viz) is breaking and moving to next line.

We are using Cognos 11.1 R5 version and using Reports. We are using Line chart as a visualisation. Here tooltip in line chart is breaking and moving to next line. This is happening only for last values in the chart. Attached the screenshotMARCH | ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration