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Cognos Analytics

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Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

Enrichment - De-enrichment of items in package

Currently, if you include something from a package for enrichment and later decide that you want it removed because it was report specific item that was include into package instead of general, there is no way to remove it from enrichment. You c...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

New Routing Rules Screen in Internet Explorer does not work properly

The new Routing rules screen does expand well in Internet Explorer it works with FireFox which is not our standard browser the screen collapses and it's not friendly. see attached screen shots
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Folder usage within Data modules

I am trying to use folders within my data module so the users can distinctly see the dimensions and navigational paths
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Is a defect

Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

All TM1 cube based reports are throwing "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics error" post upgraded to 11.2.4 FP3

We have upgraded cognos from 11.1.7 FP5 to 11.2.4 FP3. Post upgrade we are getting "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics" error while running the report which is created based on TM1 Cube. Datasource Connection Type : IBM Plannin...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Is a defect