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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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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

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
over 4 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

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
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

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