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Cognos Analytics

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Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Store filter selections per user in shared Dashboards

In shared Dashboards it would be great if each user can store his individual filter values in drop down filters so when he access the dashboard later it would be loaded by using those filters.
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Excel sheet numbering

Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In Cognos 12.0.4 IF2, I need to set a default prompt using the new dynamic prompt feature. However, it's not letting me set the value I need. It was determined that this is not a defect since specifying the type of value (caption or MUN) is not a feature of the default parameter feature yet. I was told to submit a request for it to be added as an enhancement for a future release.

Using a report as a dashboard, using a Dynamic Cube, we need to default the dashboard to display the current month of data.
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Scheduling dataset refresh is unfortunately not possible in our environment since we do not have credentials for username/password. (We are using Smartcards and Kerberos) This means users must refresh datasets manually. This also means we need a w...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to categorize or hide custom visualizations

It seems all custom visualizations automatically fall under the bucket 'custom' in the visualization library. We would like the ability to categorize the custom visualizations into existing or new buckets. In our specific use case, we have added v...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dynamic User Recipients in Event Studio

User reports can sometimes fail on the server when run in background. Cognos does not alert users when this happens (except for send failures which is post execution). I have created an event/agent which runs against the Audit package every 15 min...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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