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Data Access and Modelling

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Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics integration with Open Source ETL

Currently, the TELCEL client has an open source ETL in which they have more than 100 processes, for transformation, the presentation layer is with Cognos Analytics 11.7. The ETL is Pentaho Data Integration V 8.2 (PDI) also known as Kettle. TELCEL ...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Ralph Davis

Cognos Data Modules need expanded capabilities to model Planning analytics cubes. Basic model can be created, but limited in scope. As a result, any self service is diminished in the COgnos Dashboard environment.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Connect to Infor on AWS DataLake

We are moving to use Infor on AWS Datalake. We have problem with set up data connection. Contacted Cognos support and they said Infor AWS is not supported data source. Now we are having issue using Cognos as reporting tools. Wondering if IBM can a...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration