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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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Cognos Analytics - Arcadia support

Currently Cognos Analytics doesn't support Arcadia (ArcadiaData) as a data source for Reporting and Dashboarding. Arcadia and Analytical Views are supported with many BI tools and delivers very good results when it comes to performance. If Cognos ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easiest border info reading in properties border popup (direct instead of mouseover) - Report Studio

I have been developping on report studio for months and I find it very difficult to create/ modify borders.One of the biggest problem is that it is difficult to know which border you are modifying.Would it be possible to have an enhancement on thi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add reporting function to analyze report specification

In Report Studio, customer wants to have a report analysis function to generate design overview for report specification which can summarize objects used in Report Studio (prompt, list, filter, expression and so on), such as function in C8.3 tool ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Logic for search results on Data Source panel in reports and dashboards

User is interested to know when user starts to input on search field on data source panel, how the appearing search result on data source panel is sorted in reports and dashboards. Is it based on some particular order or sorting format ? User woul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report: Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel.

Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel. User expects to see that such window will automatically disappear. User has to always click outside after completing...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deleting filter details in case of deleting the column in Reports

Currently the system continues to keep filter details and applies them even in case when that data element (on which a filter is applied) has been deleted from Report. Users expect to have another logic in accordance to which such filter details w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filter details in Reports as a separate window

Users are interested to see the details of filter on a separate window which must be visible by default while creating report (irrespective of design mode or preview mode).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

SAP HANA via Secure Gateway for CA On Demand

Hi there, I'd like SAP HANA to work like it does for Planning Analytics (SaSS) via Secure Gateway.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration