What's new and changed in Cognos Dashboards

Cognos Dashboards updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Cloud Pak® for Data.

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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7.3

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in September 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.3.

Operand version: 4.7.3

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 4.7.3 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:

Updated software version
This release of the Cognos Dashboards service provides Version 12.0.1 of the Cognos Analytics dashboards software. For details, see Release 12.0.1 - Dashboards in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Issues fixed in this release

Version 4.7.3 of the Cognos Dashboards service includes various fixes.

For details, see What's new and changed in Cognos Dashboards.

Security issues fixed in this release

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23919, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807, CVE-2023-27043, CVE-2023-30588, CVE-2023-30589, CVE-2023-38275, CVE-2023-38276, CVE-2023-38735

CVE-2020-13956

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7.2

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in August 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.2.

Operand version: 4.7.2

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 4.7.2 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:

Updated software version
This release of the Cognos Dashboards service provides Version 12.0.0 + Interim Fix of the Cognos Analytics dashboards software. For details, see Release 12.0.0 - Dashboards in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Issues fixed in this release

Version 4.7.2 of the Cognos Dashboards service includes various fixes.

Security issues fixed in this release

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2022-32212, CVE-2022-32213, CVE-2022-32214, CVE-2022-32215, CVE-2022-32222, CVE-2023-26136

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.7.0

A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in June 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.0.

Operand version: 4.7.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 4.7.0 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:

Limits on the number of users who can create and view dashboards
The Cloud Pak for Data Standard Edition license and Enterprise Edition license limit the number of users who can create and view dashboards. Specifically, your license entitles you to:
  • Assign up to 5 users with the Create dashboards permission.

    The Create dashboards permission includes permission to view dashboards.

  • Assign up to 20 users with the View dashboards permission

If you need to exceed these limits, you must purchase a Cognos license.

For more information, see Setting up Cognos Dashboards permissions and Tracking usage of Cognos Dashboards licenses.

Updated dashboard features
Cognos Dashboards includes the latest dashboard features from Cognos Analytics Version 12.0.0. For more information, see Dashboards - New and changed features in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
New dashboard visualizations
Cognos Dashboards now includes the following visualizations:
  • Decision tree.

    For details see Decision tree in the Cognos Analytics documentation.

  • Driver analysis.

    For details see Driver analysis in the Cognos Analytics documentation.

  • Spiral.

    For details see Spiral in the Cognos Analytics documentation.

  • Sunburst.

    For details see Sunburst in the Cognos Analytics documentation.

Visualization insights and forecasting
Cognos Dashboards now provides insights and forecasting for your dashboard visualizations. For more information, see Insights and forecast in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
New data source connections
You can now connect to the following data sources from Cognos Dashboards:
  • IBM Cloud® Data Engine
  • IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL
  • IBM® Db2® Big SQL
  • IBM Db2 for i
  • IBM Informix®
  • Amazon RDS for MySQL
  • Amazon RDS for Oracle
  • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Cloudera Impala
  • Dremio
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Database
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Snowflake
  • Teradata
  • Uploaded data files in Microsoft Excel file format
Checking and refreshing data sources
You can now check the status of the data sources for your dashboards. You can also refresh the data sources to ensure that the data in your dashboards is up to date. For more information, see Checking and refreshing your dashboard data sources.
Joining tables from a multi-sheet file
Now you can use Cognos Dashboards to join tables from uploaded data files that contain multiple sheets.

For more information, see Creating a relationship between sheets in a multi-sheet file data source.

Migrating dashboards to Cognos Analytics
You can now migrate dashboards from Cognos Dashboards to Cognos Analytics. When you migrate a dashboard to Cognos Analytics, you can use the additional features that Cognos Analytics provides, including enterprise reporting, AI features, and a more powerful dashboard experience. For more information, see Migrating dashboards from Cognos Dashboards to Cognos Analytics.