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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Freeze Sections in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

We created large dashboards in CA11 as part of our organization requirement, giving the users the ability to interact with multiple dimensions inside the same dashboard. Because of multiple visualizations inside the dashboard, users have to scroll...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add HADR support for DB2 Content Stores with Cognos Analytics

Customers have HADR DB2 Solutions which they want to use with other IBM Applications for example IBM Cognos Analytics - currently Cognos does not support the HADR functionality.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Inherit data security in datasets from packages and data modules based on data connections

When a data set is created based on a data module or package, the data security access rights of the originator (package/data source or datamodule/data source) are not inherited. Therefore carefully set data access on dataconnection and package le...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date Prompt in Dashboards (Slider or Date Box)

Currently we don't have this capability on Dashboards.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos PowerCube packages to run in 64bit (DQM)

We have a distributed Cognos platform hosting more than 20 business aplications. As some of them use PowerCubes we have to keep Cognos 32bits dispatchers and manage double Cognos instances (32bits/64bits). Our target is a full 64bits platform (ful...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration