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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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Add Search & Replace for Data Modules

Users will need to be able to search and replace expressions in data modules. Currently, not every ID change is automatically adapting its dependencies, causing errors in the data module. Now, we need to one by one adapt all depending expressions,...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Studio Support for DataModules

Query Studio is the self-service tool used by all our end users. Currently QS does not support data modules. With Data Modules becoming so popular, it is important they be supported by QS, otherwise the usage of DataModules will be very limited.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Forecasting not available with Package included in Data Module

Forecasting is being used on a visualization from a relational source only. The data module contains relational tables and a package. The issue is the forecast does not work unless we remove the package from the data module. However, the package i...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Support Google API for Single Sign-On Authentication

Add support for Google API for Single Sign-On. We are able to perform it through the browser for Web tools but it fails in Framework Manager as its Built-In Browser is not compliant with Google requirements
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set HTTPONLY attribute to all cookies generated by Cognos

HTTPONLY attribute can be currently enabled only for cam_passport cookie. Please update the product so that this attribute is set for other Cognos generated cookies just like domain, path, secure attributes that are currently set to all the cookie...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

For Full Installations set the default to offset by 100 instead of 5 when Port 9300 is in use

For Full Cognos Analytics Installations, offset the port by 100 when the default port is used. See this IBM Support topic for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration