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


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Cognos Analytics

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Add summarize members function when dragging member elements from the data element tree into report canvas

In legacy power play for windows client it was possible to select a number of members, press the summarize option in the left hand toolbar and drag the selected members to into the crosstab canvas. The result was, that one calculated member got cr...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow for a deployment export object to maintain a specific history (ie, 4+current) of deployment archives, or unlimited versions, as part of the definition.

Supplementary to CA-I-4375, it would be ideal if the deployment export definition allowed for the deployment archives to be maintained by the product (ie, maintaining 4 historic archives, plus current, removing the last archive on next successful ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set "Contains" as the default search option in Select and Search prompt

By default, the Select and Search prompt uses "Start with any of these keywords" as the default search option. This search option does not provide an optimal user experience. On most cases, the users usually remember only part of the string they a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Two Factor Authentication support with Cognos Analytics 11.x & 11.0.x

Currently there is no 2FA provided for the On Prem Cognos Analytics. Recently they have added 2FA for the cloud but Cognos does not explicitly support it. It would be beneficial if Cognos adds 2FA support with third party tools, LDAP or the cloud....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release