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Cognos Analytics

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Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumers, have the Icon to Delete a Report in Team Content, even if they don't have permissions do to so.

Even when removing execute permissions form a consumer to run a report, the ellipses drop down shows Delete icon in Team Content. If they click on it, it says they don't have permission, they should not see the option.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove option for users to sent themselves a blank email

In Cognos 10, when emailing report output the menu required either attaching the report output or sending a link to the report. In Cognos Analytics when a user is attempting to email themselves the report output, if they want to attach the report ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Mapping Visualization Extra Zip Codes

Current map visualtion for Cognos Analytics is missing or else is unable to resolve some zip codes that need to be in place for a critical security dashboard. Because the current map provider has not included some zip codes, a dashboard mapping CO...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration