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Cognos Analytics

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506 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration
182 VOTE

Ability for administrator to see users groups, roles and capabilities

As an administrator it would be very helpful and useful to be able to see the groups, roles and capabilities assigned to a specific user.It would help the administrator understand why a users is signed for a specific license.Eg.: Why is user AAA r...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

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