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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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Cognos Analytics

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Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Multiselection prompt missing checkboxes in interactive mode

Hello, we would liek to have a different presentation of multiselection prompt when we enable interactive mode in reports. Today to domultiselection we have to use ctrl. With many lines to select it makes it complicated for users and we have n...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard - Set Fit Page to default On

In Dashboard, users can set the Fit Page property to On so that the dashboard does not scroll. It would be convenient if this property could be defaulted to On. Users are calling in because CA Dashboards are not fitting to the screen anymore. It i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tree Map Visualization missing Master Detail option

The report has a list and tree map, and has a page set defined on County. Master-detail relationship has been added to show County level data page/tab-wise. The list shows the expected results. However the Tree Map does not support a master-det...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide Donut Charts an option for central text/value

Donut version of a PIE chart by definition have an available area within the circle , and this is OFTEN utilised by displaying a value (Total or avg or something). This is done manually by overlaying a dashboard element. Providing this as an intri...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release