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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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Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configurable Query Retry Mechanism for Enhanced Query Reliability

Our backend utilizes Trino on S3, and we occasionally encounter intermittent error messages, particularly when a single Cognos report generates multiple queries against the same data source. This issue is more prevalent in scenarios involving mast...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow user to specify GPU node where LLM gets deployed during installation

Currently there is no way to determine what GPU or what node the LLM uses or gets deployed to. We need a mechanism by which we can specify the GPU node where the LLM gets deployed to. Since WCA is using the SYOM framework to serve the ibm-granite-...

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release