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Cognos Analytics

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    Publish a documented list of Configuration Keys that can be accessed via REST API

    The REST API supports retrieving and updating Configuration Keys, but there is no documentation on which keys are delivered with Cognos. It would be nice to have detailed documentation of the supplied keys as well as some examples of how to use cu...
    2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Submitted

    Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Scheduled Data Server Connection Refresh

    Accurate dashboards and reports depend on up‑to‑date Data Server Connection Assets. In many environments, connection metadata drifts over time due to schema changes, credential updates, or infrastructure modifications. A scheduled, resource-aware ...
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Automated Housekeeping of Unused Content

    Cognos environments accumulate many unused reports, dashboards, data modules, and packages over time. This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information. Automated housekeeping ensures only r...
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Admin Agent: Automated Credential Health & Rotation

    Overview: The Cognos Administration Agent should provide a fully automated and proactive Credential Health & Rotation capability to prevent schedule failures caused by expired, deprovisioned, or misconfigured credentials. This feature strength...
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    Creating a dashboard drillthrough link should allow us to target shortcuts

    Many orgs use shortcuts as a mechanism to simplify access to reports and dashboards. As such, it should be possible to use shortcuts for actions that would affect the target of the shortcuts. Shortcuts to reports and explorations should be conside...
    3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Cognos Assistant Insight to Add the Total Risk Insight.

    When querying Cognos Assistant with “Show all active risk by business entity,” the assistant generates multiple insights. One of the insights displayed is: “Total number of results for active risk, across all business entities, is 88.” However, th...
    5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

    Add hierarchy to drop-down list filters for a more custom interactivity.

    Similar to a cascading filter set, except directly on the dashboard canvas. Specific Example: I have a dashboard that displays employee hours and it breaks down groups by different categories such as title (e.g. Associate, Senior Associate, Manage...
    9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Button Formatting

    Can we request an enhancement to Cognos to incorporate innate style changes for the “Finish” prompt button so it is visually different when there are incomplete required prompts? I did a search and the solutions all required javascript or variable...
    11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Eliminating Mandatory Master-Detail Relationships if same query is tied to page and crosstab/chart

    Currently, when the same query is tied to both the page and the crosstab/visualization, the product requires defining a master-detail relationship. While this behavior is consistent across visualizations, crosstabs, and earlier product versions, i...
    11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

    Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
    13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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