IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Cognos Analytics

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Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Ability to set "Contains" as the default search option in Select and Search prompt

By default, the Select and Search prompt uses "Start with any of these keywords" as the default search option. This search option does not provide an optimal user experience. On most cases, the users usually remember only part of the string they a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Two Factor Authentication support with Cognos Analytics 11.x & 11.0.x

Currently there is no 2FA provided for the On Prem Cognos Analytics. Recently they have added 2FA for the cloud but Cognos does not explicitly support it. It would be beneficial if Cognos adds 2FA support with third party tools, LDAP or the cloud....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add the "Set Pack or module option" for Dashboard as it exists for reports

It would be very useful for us if Dashboards could have the same relinking (Pack or Module) option that exists for Reports. Thank you.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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