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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Table Dashboard widget to add text commentary

Currently slides are used to present numbers and text commentary. A table is used to structure the text commentary. Moving to Cognos Analytics we would like to be able to replicate this text commentary in a table within the Cognos dashboard. Curre...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration