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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 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

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

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
over 8 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,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration