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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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Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Use My Credentials" option is not available to normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment

"Use My Credential" option is missing for normal users in Cognos 11.0.7 Environment, the option is available to only administrator.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Az.Combination Evolution

System: ReporterActor: User needing new feature -------------------------------------Attached the screenshot for the example.Red dots are connected by a line which is transparent. The actual behavior is : On hidden the lines connecting the dots in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics -Search for active directory groups in OIDC OKTA namespace in Cognos when OKTA and active directory synced

System: Cognos analytics security and access restriction with OIDC configuration Required feature : Require to search for Active directory groups in OKTA OIDC namespace configured in cognos when OKTA is synced with Active Directory Description :Co...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

documentation upgrade on top of a previous version by using silent instal

In the documentation there is an upgrade process from earlier version :https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_upgrade_upgradeprocess.html#upgrade_UpgradeProcess there is also a docume...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration