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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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Visualizations (including maps)

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Enable feature to prompt users to opt-in Cookies

One of our customers reported a security vulnerability where Cognos cookies are issued without user consent. We propose implementing a feature that prompts users about cookie usage upon login. This prompt should provide users the option to opt-in ...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Enable non-admins to edit global color palettes

In the current versions of Cognos Analytics it is only possible for system admins to create, alter or delete global color palettes. Creating a capability would give power users the ability to edit the color palettes used in their dashboards withou...
about 2 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, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

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...
almost 3 years 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.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

Add a Value label location property to the clustered column visualization

Stacked column has a "value label location" property. Clustered column should work the same way.
4 months 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration