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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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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Format Negative numbers in parentheses in dashboard

We have cognos analytics 11.1.7FP2. We wanted to change the way negative numbers are displayed on a dashboard. IF there are negative numbers like -2567 we want to be able to change the format and show it as (2567) on a dashboard. It works fine in ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release