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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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Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard,Waterfall graph:How to move X-axis item names.

The X-axis item names are displayed at the bottom. When many items are lined up on the X-axis, the problem is that the user's line of sight moves significantly. I would like to add a function to move the item name on the X-axis.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Bursting Reports to Email from Cognos on Demand

Bursting reports that are migrated to Cognos on Cloud no longer burst to email recipients. This is an extremely useful future when generating reports for sales teams where the region/area of the report does not change but the person responsible do...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration