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Cognos Analytics

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Planned for future release

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

User capability to control REST API access in Cognos (incl. CACC)

Problem On-prem: REST API is only reachable via port 9300, which is blocked by our firewall → customers have no REST API access. In CACC: REST API is reachable via /api without a specific port → customers could directly access the REST API. ...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Planned for future release

Enable HTTP/1.1 support in Cognos SOAP SDK to prevent “426 Upgrade Required”

We are currently unable to call CACC (Cognos Analytics Certified Containers) ServiceMesh endpoints via the Cognos SOAP SDK because the requests fail with HTTP error 426 Upgrade Required. The root cause appears to be that the ServiceMesh URL requir...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Planned for future release

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Planned for future release
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics Planned for future release

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Planned for future release

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other Planned for future release