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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

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Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix Output Version sort issue

We have burst output being saved, but when viewing the saved output versions of the reports often they are not sorted as specified by our burst key. When running the job that bursts the reports, the report output versions are being generated in or...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few. In ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report Author Custom group_Select All Issue in CA 11.0.10

Report Author Custom group_Select All Issue(CA 11.0.10): When creating the custom group if “Select all” option is given for selecting the values present, only the values present in that particular range are selected. Rest of the values need to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Many Time and Relative Time changes needed in Cube Designer

Several Relative Time issues enhancements needed • We need the ability to hide any relative time that is automatically added when relative time is set to true. Some are not what the business wants and for some of them the %'s are not wanted eith...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Query Studio filtering functionality to WSA/Cognos 11

Query Studio contains the “Matches SQL Pattern” operator that allows users to very easily input multiple partial values when filtering on a field. WSA/11 offers the same operator but only allows one value to be added at a time (even if using t...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration