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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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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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Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XML copy for datasets

Hi There, We are using copy xml to clip board and open it from clip board for datasets on 11.1.3. but after upgrade to 11.2.4, this feature is no longer working (it copies queries but not pages). we raised a case PMR TS017545639 with IBM. support ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data tables - ability to select elements in filter (not just deselect)

At the moment in an filter in a data table you can only deselect elements. It would be great, if you are able to select values as well.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add a standard disclaimer(Notes) to outgoing cognos 11 reports

How to add a standard disclaimer to outgoing cognos 11.06 reports.When user selects DELEVERY OPTION: E-MAIL REPORTwe would like user to get e-mailed report with standard disclaimer (notice or warning which is added to an outgoing email)
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Login screen showing a pre-filled value for Namespace

Hi, We are on CA R5 installed in a distributed mode on Linux with dual namespaces called "ADESI" and "ES" configured. In version 10, the namespace value on the login screen is pre-populated in the alphabetical order i.e. with ADESI first and ES la...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration