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Data Access and Modelling

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More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Disable selection and copy text in non-interactive reports

We would like that the option of selecting and coping text from non-interactive reports to be disabled. At this moment, there is no option to disable these features and users can copy details from the Cognos reports and use them outside the applic...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: add governors

Governors should be available in data modules like they are in Framework Manager. For example it is currently not possible to prevent local processing.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: model automation

Our modelers don't want to create their complex/big models completely manually. They need to create models partially by scripts which can be executed over the data module UI, like it is possible in Framework Manager. This possibility should be con...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration