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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Print to multiple printers in one schedule

Need the ability to print to multiple printers in one schedule. I can work-around this by creating a report view but that is a lot of extra work when you just want to print to two printers. thank you.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

implement EXISTS or NOT EXISTS operator in reporting

I would like to have the possibility to use in reporting the sql EXIST operator available. I don't like to write manual sql because of manteniance and portability or use other shortcuts or alternative to implement the sql EXIST logic for example u...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Dedicated dispatcher for different data sources

We have configuration conflict to set up realm kerberos to connect to different HADOOP systems. In out krb5.conf, We have to hard-coded realm name for the HADOOP system. But this limits us to connect to other HADOOP systems that need different rea...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable nesting items bellow and next to each other in visualization like it used to work in old cognos charts

We need to be able to drag elements next to each other and bellow each other in the same visualization to be able to combine elements and show what is requested in dsahboards. Especially important for OALP sources. Typically you want to have two l...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Under Team Content We need All reports and path and description details not Audit report

User asked what are the reports under Team content. Report Name ,Report Path and Description of the report. Example: Team Content->Office A->under 10 Reports we need to see all 10 Reports and description. In Audit Report only User run report...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration