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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.

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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Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide 11

For all previous versions of IBM Cognos an 'Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide' was available.Now, with IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM has drastically changed the way services work and communicate with eachother: Use of URL rewr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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_...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Legend Object Labels (custom text, option to hide summarization method)

In dashboard, when multiple facts are pulled into a visual, the legends labels have the summarization method concatenated on the end [measure 1 (sum), measure 2 (calculated)]. The summarization method should be optional to show. In addition, all l...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace.

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace. And this namespace is created with Open ID Connect.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release