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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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Provide Override workflow action text is for actions beginning from Start stage.

For the Workflow which have only start and End Stage, system do not allow to add customized message on workflow Popup. It is possible for subsequent action but not for the one which is getting initiated from Start Stage.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration