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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Multilingual Reports

Hi Team, Is there any way to check which all reports use multinational languages? Like I need to get list of all the reports which are using report language variable with multiple languages. I need to check this for around 5000 reports which can b...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Format of calculated members in Dynamic Cubes

Using a percentage aggregation in a calculated member, does not result in the Measure being formatted with Percent, when defined in a Dynamic Cube.This has been evaluated as Design Intent in APAR PI09144. This enhancement is created, as request to...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tooltip is not easily seen when data values in chart have large differenecs

When hovering over charts that have small vales the tooltip does not display.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

LDAP SSL Keystores

LDAP SSL Cert Format. Please provide additional formats besides cert8.db and key3.db. Preferable .jks or .kdb.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create distribution lists within a tenant

In Cognos 11, Distribution Lists can only be created from the Cognos namespace. This prevents tenant client administrators from managing within their own tenant. We would like the ability to have our own client tenants maintain their administratio...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration