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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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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

Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Planned for future release

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Fix smooth line property for 11.1 visualizations

I would really like to use the smooth line visualization and/or property offered in 11.1 visualizations, but the way the lines are drawn sometimes just don't make sense. I've attached an example of consecutive points being plotted on a time series...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Anlytics mobile in Spanish

In cognos cognection, users can define the preferred language for the tool and everything they see from the browser they see in the defined language, but when they access cognos mobile they can only see the tool in English. For us it is important ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release