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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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Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Switch from non-interactive to interactive report

A report with V11 abilities to interact with it will not work with this feature when it is a drill through form a report without this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add/Pin user specific Folder(s) to left navigation bar

Majority of our users are using more than one solution and therefore need access to more than one folder structure constantly. Current possibility to add user role specific folders limits having only one pinned folder. Giving user functionality to...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

auto summary's default value cannot be set as 'false' when using List object for Cognos report

I tried this on version 11.2.4 with the document for 11.0.12, but it didnt work. (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-auto-group-and-summarize-false-default-report-lists) Modifying "AutoListGroupSummaryBehavior" values to "false" in "Default...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration