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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 2 years 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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

support auth mode 3 for scheduling forecasts in PAW

scheduling a forecast is not supported in Planning Analytics Local configured with Windows integrated authentication (mode 3). compare with: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=forecasts-schedule-baseline-forecast since ther...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Allow displaying spark CPU and memory values on Monitoring page

Currently Spark runtimes do not register the pods on the Spark side with the runtimes framework. So, Monitoring page show only 1vCPU and 1G RAM regardless of the size of the Spark environment choosen is only the proxy pod on the Jupyter Client sid...
almost 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

Adding Name of job to job page/UI

Right now in the job page, you can see the timestamp and the AppID/ JobID, but there is no information about the actual name of the job. We would like to have that information to quickly check the status without having to collect the ID's and swap...
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted

HTTP Response codes displaying for job status

Right now the HTTP response codes are returning 200's for everything about the jobs. When executing a job, when it fails or errors out we would expect to receive the proper response codes for the error, but it still only returns 200.
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 4 Submitted

Custom Images for Spark

Python packages can currently be added using the approach described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=packages-customizing-using-user-home-volume However, some Python packages use shared libraries that may not be instal...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Cannot find a way to remove spark applications and history from analytics engine spark (cp4d).

The customer is using Watsonx.data with both Analytics Engine Spark and Native Spark. Over time, a large number of Spark applications and historical records have accumulated since last year. While there is a workaround to remove some records from ...
11 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted