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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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Ability to consider TM1/PA SSL certificates within a Cognos Analytics installation

In an environment where Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics is installed the most common way is CAM authentication for a single login. In order to use SSL in such an environment an additional option is requested in the installation procedure t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Glass Portal Signout option by user to go to External system for Logoff

To have the signout action of the Glass Portal with in Cognos Analytics go to a configurable external URL for signout of IBM Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to sort Waterfall by greatest change value

Using the Waterfall visualization, there is not a good way to sort the sub-categories. More specifically, if you are using a "Change" Waterfall which calculates variances, you must recalculate the variance manually if you wish to sort the sub-cate...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow for filtering using range on varchar fields

we need to be able to filter between two values on an varchar field in workspace advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the default setting when sending mails

With the options for the delivery of the reports (after "Execution in the background") set as default that the report is sent as an attachment by email and is not saved.I click on "Delivery" option (new GUI). The following should then be activated...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dedicated dispatcher for different data sources

We have configuration conflict to set up realm kerberos to connect to different HADOOP systems. In out krb5.conf, We have to hard-coded realm name for the HADOOP system. But this limits us to connect to other HADOOP systems that need different rea...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable nesting items bellow and next to each other in visualization like it used to work in old cognos charts

We need to be able to drag elements next to each other and bellow each other in the same visualization to be able to combine elements and show what is requested in dsahboards. Especially important for OALP sources. Typically you want to have two l...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration