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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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Allow customer to implment skinning and coporate fonts according to coporate styleguide

Customer has own fontset since 1990 and is more then inetresseted to use the fonts in the internetfacing reporting solutions. Customer has own coporate styleguide with own icons, symbols, colors, spaceing.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

dataModules Expression variables API

we´re digging into dataModule usage and we´ve found some samples wich, inside dataModule, uses some advanced expressions to define month to date (MTD) calculations over dates. We´d like to find full support about the posibilites of this expression...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Display Active Filters on Dashboard

Would be useful to switch on/off a view of any active filters on a Dashboard. Or incorporate active filters into title of visualisation.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
almost 7 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

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

Statistical calculations in Dashboard does not work

It was found that the statistical calculations like 'median' for Summary is not working in Dashboard. This is with reference to case created TS005791544 with IBM Support. The feature is available but fails to summarize correctly.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release