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Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to localize drilled through view

We crated a PAW book that can drill through to another view getting a records from ODBC DB using MDX like: "select aaa, bbb from table". On that view, we'd like to use localize caption so that caption can be changed depending on the language confi...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

When dropping table retain OBID for when recreating that same table

Any account that utilizes QREP should want this option of retaining OBID
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data

CDC DB2 range partitioned table not replicating data whenever there is attach / detach operation performed from source table. We have configured system parameter “range_partitioned_table_support = true “ however it is not replicating data. Partiti...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Dynamic setup PDF page - New pdf feature/property that allows the report created using page set when run PDF for certain criteria to appear on the pdf page without causing too much white space at the bottom of pages when there is less data - which occurs when set a static page size for the output

This property will automate the data generation. Currently, for each server that we want to generate data, we have to enter in the report in editing mode and change the PDF page setup property to then run the report (run PDF) and change the proper...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Images does not contain Accessible Name (508 Compliance)

Element with no accessible name: Image does not contain an accessible name. This would cause a screen reader to not be able to read off this element. Ask: Can you add an assessible name to the element? Similar issue was raised for PMR long back...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty

What we were trying to do with the V3 code for synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty. It appears that the V4 product uses Enterprise Java Beans (EJB’s) timers now. So to synchronize the TAS...
11 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Planned for future release

Save and Save as Template on "Application and Plans"

This Save feature and Save as Template on the Older version before 90 was really user friendly and almost ease of usage not replacing the actual report's structure. Having copy of the personal copy saving and uploading the copy was not breaking th...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

rules applied to each user

For each governance rules that are applied to the user, there should be a place to see the consolidated rules applied to the user
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration