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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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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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Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Create Datasets/Dashboards from an existing Cognos Report

Create a dataset directly from an existing Cognos report and refresh it on a schedule.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Align font size of KPI & summary visualizations on a dashboard tab

We'Id like to have the font size of KPI and summary visualizations aligned, at least on a tab. Typically on dashboards KPI/Summary visualizations are aligned adjacent on a dashboard tab, with identical visualization box sizes. To make things look ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Revamp Event Studio User Experience based on Carbon Design

Cognos Analytics User Experience has been revamped based on carbon design in 11.2, however the Event Studio tool has not been updated since 10.2.x version. We do not show event studio during our prospective customer presentations, because of how o...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration