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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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Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
113 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
682 VOTE

Send Email on Report Failure

We need an email sent to the report author when a scheduled report fails. This way, we could re-run the report or research the failure.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 8
693 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Allow Table in Cognos dashboard to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

Hey Team! In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is present. However, if there is no data available, the table is left blank and only displays the headers, which is not a user-friendly view....
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
599 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Future consideration
532 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Customize the shape of plots On Maps

Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Submitted