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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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My votes: Visualizations (including maps)

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Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Layout improvement for dashboard visualizations

Using relative positioning for the dashboard canvas, it is very difficult to properly lineup the visualizations, they do not snap to bordering visualizations. Lets says you have 3 visualizations and the first 2 have a width of 11% you would expect...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Customize the shape of plots On Maps

Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Planned for future release

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Map showing Count on point size

I have created a Map Visualization using Patient Country/State/County/Zip as when it comes to smaller number when zoomed in at county level the Point Size/color look same for 1 to 300 patient Count, what we would like to see is showing count of pa...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration