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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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bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Interactive filtering in the visualization map

Interactive filtering in the visualization map
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Recent list showed in welcome page don't show Shortcuts names

We have hundreds of Shortcuts and used them to give business names to a same report. But they don't appear in the recent list with the Shortcut name but with the report source name. Creating confusion between our users.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Simplify visualization libraries

Today in CA we have legacy visualization, 11.0 visualization, 11.1 visualizations and maybe soon 11.2 visualization. All my clients find it cumbersome, incomprehensible and incoherent. I think it's necessary to set up the old library conversions t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Vertical Bullet Visualization

In the Dashboard tool, I would like to have a vertical Bullet Graph. The actual Bullet Graph seem only offer the possibility to display it horizontally.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release