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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
114 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future 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....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

download dashboard output in excel

Our user creates Crosstab structure in powerplay, and they would need same flexibility, currently downloading data it in table and the converting it back in crosstab in excel will be a overhead. My concern is why IBM hasn't provided option to down...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted