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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Microsoft Fabric Data Server Connection

Any plans on supporting a Data Server Connection to Microsoft Fabric ?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization

Stacked bar chart visualization is highly used to show absolute dollars. Ability to add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization will allow an effective visual to show period to period changes across the absolute numbers, as an example
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Customize Dasboard Map Layers, Boundaries, etc.

Not having the ability to customize the city/county/etc. 'library' of the dashboard map severely limits its usefulness. Case #TS000146878
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM to look for trigger file when placing Cubes in sFTP site to avoid Cube files from being separated during transfer

Originally had this case open: TS001299703 So basically, we are trying to build cubes here in onPrem Transformer, sFTP to IBM so they are available in the CA11 Prod Cloud environment each day. The sFTP steps are proving to be the bottleneck becaus...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create Dashboard Filter using static, user defined values

In Dashboarding, we would like the ability to have a Filter that contains user defined, static values without having to create a Data Module. We would also like the ability to add logic to the filter selection.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

R Integration in Cognos Analytics

Similar to Jupyter notebook support, It would be great to have R support in Cognos. Capability to process R Script using data sources in Cognos Parameters could be passed into R Script via Prompt for e.g. user can choose x periods history to fore...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists