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Cognos Analytics

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Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Different Attributes in between Hierarchy levels in DQM Model

When pulling different Attributes in between the Hierarchal levels DQM Model throws error. But, when we use this with CQM it works perfectly fine.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Min & Max Values for Axis on Visualizations Disappeared for Active Reports in Cognos 11.1

Since migrating to Congos 11.1, we are noticing that the ability to set minimum and maximum values for an axis on visualizations is no longer an option after migrating to Cognos 11.1. Would like to see this option available again.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

More Defined Error Messages

Our team is using CA to connect to TM1 packages, and often times we run into connection issues. It will always give us the same message "DIMM-ERR-1007", but the root cause could be completely different each time.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Folder usage within Data modules

I am trying to use folders within my data module so the users can distinctly see the dimensions and navigational paths
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Is a defect

'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics, have to change zoom for it to appear when using Cognos Analytics to create a report.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

need to fix security breaks in Apache web server

Our internal security scan has found couple of Breaks related to configuration in Apache web server used for CA v11.1.1. Our question is, do we have plan to fix them in future releases or we will need to submit enhancement request in order to get ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect