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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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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.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Option for Cognos admins to proxy as another user

One feature that would be so helpful for Cognos administrators is the ability to see what a particular user sees, to simulate what the particular user is experiencing. There is a similar feature available for multitenancy for admins to see what a ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization per Cognos "Group" (not just "Roles")

Currently in C11 customization is only available per security "Role". If your security is based on Cognos "Groups" then you can not use customization. Please make it available for security "Groups" as well!
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration