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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

To have numerical filters like 'greater than', 'between',etc., for fields of type Integer on Dashboard

Problem Statement: We see String based filters like "Contains", "Equals", "Starts with" etc., for a field which is of Integer Data Type on the Dashboard. Steps To Reproduce : Drag the integer field to any Visualization in the dashboard and try fil...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Dynamic cubes heap when loading in-memory aggregates

Loading the in-memory aggregates consumes massive amounts of heap. In previous versions of Cognos when all in-memory aggregates was loaded from the source the heap consumption was far less. We have a setup with a few cubs starting at the same time...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Handling Refresh tokens(Schedule strategy) for Azure AD generic namespace.

In OIDC Generic security namespace , there is an option to use Refresh tokens as a scheduling strategy instead of using the password flow. When this approach is used , refresh tokens will be used for getting an access token when the schedule runs/...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration