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Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add capability of using GEN parameters in change management batch interface procedure (GOCCM)

We had below requirement from the user: We have an existing column in an existing table that we are adding a new RI to a new domain table. If we issue the compare normally using object comparison tool, we get both the table create DDL and the new ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a date ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add a platform-level connector for Microsoft Azure Fabric lakehouse

We would like to establish the connection between WKC and Microsoft Azure fabric lakehouse. The purpose is to pull the metadata from this MS platform and catalog using IBM's WKC platform. This is the top need of our business. We would like to have...
6 months ago in Connectivity 2 Planned for future release

PAW - Change default for TI parameter to String from Number

In PAW, when adding a new parameter, it defaults to the Number format. However, as a developer, there is often a need for a String parameter rather than a Number. While there is an option to change the format for multiple parameters, it retains th...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release