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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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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Navigation Paths can't be applied in a common data module and pulled into another data module

If you have a data module with common tables in it, i.e. date and locations. The folders, sorting and calculations do get pulled forward. If you want a navigation path it must be added into the data module you are adding the common data module to
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Report schedule saved parameters in Report Properties

Users are requesting to be able to manually run a schedule. This can be done in Cognos Admin console, but they don't have access to this, and there's no way to grant them access to just the schedules in Cognos Admin console for only their groups s...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Postgres Support for Cognos Analytics Content Store

Postgres is supported by Cognos Analytics as a data source but is not supported as a content store database. From a deployment and cost perspective it would make sense to support Postgres for both so that it simplifies the process. Currently, we...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration