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Cognos Analytics

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Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Authentication Namespace renaming capability from jwt to needed

When we install Cognos Analytics as cartridge on CP4D, the default namespace is jwt. In this way when we migrate from existing content store al lthe user my content and Schedules are not available, also we have to re do the entire security system....
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Add Fonts addition Capability or add Barcode fonts for Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Current there are no fonts in CP4D Cognos which shows barcodes in Cognos. The fonts can be added by default or there can be a copy process to add the new fonts needed. This will help the reports showing barcodes or printing labels.
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Adding an option to paginate the API call: /api/v1/users?identifier={namespace_id}

I have a namespace that has grown to have over 81000+ users which has caused user load and removal process to run inconsistently. This is due to a timeout limit during the GET request. It would help the API efficiency to add pagination to the API ...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted