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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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Add eventid to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT)

The eventid is important for SDK applications and should be written to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT). For example when we want to determine a history object from the information provided in the Audit database. Currently there are only the sess...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow Cognos Analytics portal authentication via API Key as a URL Parameter instead of the CAMUsername/CAMPassword/CAMNamespace parameters

With OIDC namespaces, the standard URL parameters for authenticating via URL do not work effectively due to redirects and MFA. This makes it challenging to authenticate directly via URL. It would be idea if we could authenticate via an API Key in ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Submitted

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Submitted