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Cognos Analytics

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New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Updating Timezone for Cognos Analytics service on CP4D

To align Cognos Analytics reports and logs timestamp with local time, for example from UTC to EST.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Submitted

Full Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Right now we are using Cognos Analytics on a SLES 12 SP5 OS. SLES 12 has EOS in 2024 and we need to migrate to SLES 15 (SP4 or newer). Right now the "Cognos Analytics Server" and the "Cognos Software Development Kit" are not supported on SLES 1...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration