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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

Fixed column List for a Select * based on a timestamp

It can be very useful if we could input a timestamp in the Unload cards which results in any column that were added to the table post the timestamp to be excluded from the column list to be unloaded. This will give a nice mechanism so that a SELEC...
9 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance drill in Maps for a more intuitive workflow

Use case:Currently in a map, if you have the same items represented in the region layer and the points layer for example country and city, and you drill into a specific area based on a navigation path that applies to both layers (ex: Country, City...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

All LSF messages and errors outputs

Hello LSF team, It would be extermely helpful to get all the output messages and errors the LSF commands provide - standard commands such as bjobs, bsub, bkill, bconf and bmod. For example, in case of bconf when cluster needs to run badmin mbdrest...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 0 Future 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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Under review

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB,https://bigblue.aha.io/ideas/ideas/ZHPUL-I-31 it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LT...
over 2 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

LOCK YES should imply QUISECE YES

Because HPU is not an application program and not a 'true Utility', it does not check all instances of other Utilities for incompatibility. Users will run HPU and other Utilities will that try to start may not see that HPU is running and there cou...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration