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.
Refresh 9 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in May 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.9
Refresh 8 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in April 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.8
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 4.0.8 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:
- Select multiple objects by dragging your mouse
- You can now select multiple widgets and visualizations by using your mouse. Click anywhere on the canvas and drag your cursor around the objects that you want to select. All items within the lasso are selected, and you can group them or easily move them all.
- Vertical and horizontal distribution for objects
- You can specify a vertical or horizontal distribution for objects on your dashboard to determine
where they appear.
Set vertical or horizontal alignment by selecting at least three objects, and then either click the Align icon from the toolbar or use the Visualization properties under Layout.
- Change the style on axis and legend text
- You now have more options for changing the text styles in visualizations on your
dashboard.
Right-click an axis or a legend title and select Style text from the list. You can edit the title and the title style. And, you can apply your styling to all the axes on the visualization.
- A different background color for each tab
- You now have more control over the look of tabbed dashboards. In the dashboard properties, you can set a different background color for each of your tabs.
- Enhanced widget properties
- You can now style any visualization or widget on your dashboard to have rounded corners. The
opacity property was improved so that it affects only the text widget background and not the
text.In addition, you can now control the following text widget properties:
- You can adjust the inner margins.
- You can choose a vertical alignment.
- You can set indentations.
- You can specify the line height.
- Security fixes
- CVE-2016-6811, CVE-2016-7103, CVE-2017-15095, CVE-2017-15713, CVE-2017-17485, CVE-2017-18640, CVE-2017-7525, CVE-2018-11307, CVE-2018-12022, CVE-2018-12023, CVE-2018-14718, CVE-2018-14720, CVE-2018-14721, CVE-2018-19360, CVE-2018-19361, CVE-2018-19362, CVE-2018-5968, CVE-2018-7489, CVE-2018-8009, CVE-2019-12086, CVE-2019-12384, CVE-2019-12814, CVE-2019-14379, CVE-2019-14439, CVE-2019-14540, CVE-2019-14892, CVE-2019-14893, CVE-2019-16335, CVE-2019-16942, CVE-2019-16943, CVE-2019-17267, CVE-2019-17531, CVE-2019-20330, CVE-2020-10672, CVE-2020-10673, CVE-2020-10968, CVE-2020-10969, CVE-2020-11111, CVE-2020-11112, CVE-2020-11113, CVE-2020-11619, CVE-2020-11620, CVE-2020-13936, CVE-2020-14060, CVE-2020-14061, CVE-2020-14062, CVE-2020-14195, CVE-2020-24616, CVE-2020-24750, CVE-2020-25649, CVE-2020-28469, CVE-2020-35490, CVE-2020-35491, CVE-2020-35728, CVE-2020-36179, CVE-2020-36180, CVE-2020-36181, CVE-2020-36182, CVE-2020-36183, CVE-2020-36184, CVE-2020-36185, CVE-2020-36186, CVE-2020-36187, CVE-2020-36188, CVE-2020-36189, CVE-2020-8840, CVE-2020-9488, CVE-2020-9493, CVE-2020-9546, CVE-2020-9547, CVE-2020-9548, CVE-2021-20190, CVE-2021-21295, CVE-2021-21409, CVE-2021-23177, CVE-2021-26272, CVE-2021-29425, CVE-2021-29923, CVE-2021-31566, CVE-2021-32808, CVE-2021-32809, CVE-2021-33829, CVE-2021-36090, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2021-3765, CVE-2021-37695, CVE-2021-39239, CVE-2021-3999, CVE-2021-4104, CVE-2021-41164, CVE-2021-41165, CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183, CVE-2021-41184, CVE-2022-0261, CVE-2022-0318, CVE-2022-0359, CVE-2022-0361, CVE-2022-0392, CVE-2022-0413, CVE-2022-21724, CVE-2022-23218, CVE-2022-23219, CVE-2022-23307, CVE-2022-23308, CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-24407, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25315
Refresh 7 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in March 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.7
Refresh 6 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in February 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.6
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
- The 4.0.6 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the
following features and updates:
- Improved categorical axis labels in visualizations
- The padding and angle have changed to improve the legibility of categorical axis labels.
- New logarithmic scale in visualizations
- Logarithmic scales are useful when the data you are displaying is much less or much more than the rest of the data or when the percentage differences between values are important.
- New axis options for visualizations
- You can change the value axis tick interval in some visualizations: Value axis minimum value and Value axis maximum value.
- Changing the label options in a pie visualization
- You can change the format of the labels and use a callout for the label location in pie visualizations.
- Improvements to visualization legends
- If there are too many items in the legend, an ellipsis is displayed.
- Sub-categories added to waterfall visualizations
- You can use sub-categories in waterfall visualizations and to display how categories are built up.
- Treemap visualization supports different display modes
- You can now select slice, dice, and slice-dice as the display mode in a treemap visualization.
- Drop zones on visualizations
- You can use drop zones on visualizations to add data directly to specific fields and quickly build a visualization.
- Creating a visualization using search in data fields
- You can quickly build a visualization that uses search in data fields.
- Conditionally format crosstabs
- You can define rules to color cells based on key business metrics. On the toolbar, open the properties for a crosstab or table to highlight conditionally formatted data with color.
- Select IBM Plex font
- You can now select the IBM Plex font when you author a dashboard or a report.
- Bullet visualization range coloring
- You can now apply color to the min/mad/max ranges. With the options Minimum range color, Middle range color, and Maximum range color, you can set the color of the ranges.
- New visualizations in a dashboard
- You can now use the box plot and radar visualizations in dashboards. Use box plots for identifying outliers and for comparing distributions. For details and an example, see Box plot in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
- Showing labels in local language in a map in a dashboard
- When you use a map in a dashboard, you can show the labels in the local language.
- 3D hexbin maps
- You can use a 3D hexbin grouping option in maps. Display high density spatial point data in a hexbin map.
- Donut visualization created from a pie
- You can edit a pie visualization so that it appears as a donut that displays a total of the
segments in the center. There are two new features to help you with this:
- A quick palette selector allows you to choose between Recently used palettes and All palettes.
- An improved look and feel in the conditional formatting properties.
- Conditional formatting enhancements
- You can change the conditional color palettes on your crosstab, table, and KPI visualizations
more quickly and easily. There are two new features to help you with this:
- A quick palette selector allows you to choose between Recently used palettes and All palettes.
- An improved look and feel in the conditional formatting properties.
- Responsive option
- A responsive option has been added to hide certain aspects of the visualization if the size is limited, to maximize the space that is available to display data.
- Export visualization data to a CSV file
- You can export the aggregate and detail data from a visualization to a CSV file. The Export data feature is available from the Visualization data menu in the data tray.
- New title options for visualizations
- You can provide more clarity by adding a title to any visualization.
- Several new visualization properties
- You can set or change the following color visualization elements:
- Border color on a per-axis basis
- Grid line color on a per-axis basis
- Value label color
- Repeat label color on a column
- Repeat label color on a row
- Security fixes
- CVE-2021-3521, CVE-2021-4122, CVE-2019-2391, CVE-2022-0536, CVE-2018-20673, CVE-2021-20197, CVE-2021-20271, CVE-2021-22922, CVE-2021-22923, CVE-2021-22947, CVE-2021-23841, CVE-2021-33910, CVE-2021-3421, CVE-2021-3487, CVE-2021-3580, CVE-2021-3712, CVE-2021-3800, CVE-2020-15257, CVE-2020-24553, CVE-2020-26160, CVE-2020-28362, CVE-2020-28366, CVE-2020-28367, CVE-2020-29652, CVE-2021-21334, CVE-2021-27918, CVE-2021-3114, CVE-2021-31525, CVE-2021-33195, CVE-2021-33196, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-33198, CVE-2021-3872, CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-41771, CVE-2021-4192, CVE-2021-4193, CVE-2021-44716, CVE-2021-29923, CVE-2021-36221, CVE-2021-38297, CVE-2021-39293, CVE-2021-41772, PRISMA-2021-0041
Refresh 5 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in January 2022.
Operand version: 4.0.5
This release includes the following changes:
- Security fixes
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CVE-2021-44832
Refresh 4 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in December 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.4
Refresh 3 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in November 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.3
Refresh 2 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in October 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.2
- New features
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The 4.0.2 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:
- Support for Power®
- You can install Cognos Dashboards on a Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform Version 4.8 cluster running on Power hardware.
Refresh 1 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0
A new version of Cognos Dashboards was released in August 2021.
Operand version: 4.0.1
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 4.0.1 release of Cognos Dashboards includes the following features and updates:
- Support for upgrade
- You can now upgrade Cognos Dashboards from the
following Cloud Pak for Data releases:
- Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5.x
- Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.0.x