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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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SPSS compatibility with Python

When implementing Python code in SPSS Syntax, using BEGIN PROGRAM, under some conditions, SPSS will enter a silent error if the code has bugs or syntax errors. SPSS does not reflect the error as other IDEs do, and will not release the processor un...
7 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
7 months 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Zoom functionality(viewer) in SPSS 28

Hello together, it would be great to have an additional zoom function in the viewer as well as in SPSS 28 in general instead of change the font size. So that you can zoom like in the browser with CTRL+ and -. Currently PivotTables settings that we...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
over 4 years 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 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

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

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