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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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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 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable Apple push notifications via configuration file

In the previous versions of cognos, we were able to disable apple push notifications via xml file but it is being ignored in recent versions. you can disable now using UI.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display Screen tips for Planning Analytics / TM1 dimensions elements in Cognos Report studio

When developing Cognos Framework Manager models we can add Screen tips for query subjects and query items. This is very helpful for business users as we can clarify usage for certain elements. When creating/republishing Cognos packages with TM1 cu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add custom function

I have encountered the following problems, and now there is no way to solve them. http://blog.tutorming.com/mandarin-chinese-learning-tips/formal-chinese-written-numbers This problem is open, PMR(TS005051680) get reply is unable to achieve
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration