IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Cognos Analytics

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SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default action when accessing shared URL

IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically

I want to name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically. The use case is that I have a tab which shows current year data, one for 5 year data and one for 10 year data. I can name them in line with that but it would be better if they were named 2020, ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SDK connecting with OKTA via OpenID

On Cloud we cannot use Gateway to hide multiples namespaces and we are usign OpenID with Okta. We have applications running with SDK and now it must to connect using OpenID.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support for custom lines and points on Mapbox maps

Would love to see non-polygon objects like railway tracks, roads, shipping routes on a map and then control the colour and thickness with intensity of use (or something else). Mapbox Studio supports custom point, line and polygon objects. While su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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