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Data Access and Modelling

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Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Member unique name for measure dimension based on memberID

Hello, we would like to base a measure dimension element for packages based no Planning Analytics cubes on memberID like for elements in non-measure dimensions. Today its based on caption which is changing with business needs so its not very stabl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Shared Data Source Signons

Due to the heightened levels of security, we are forced to change our credentials to data sources often. In Cognos Connection, we can associate multiple signons to each data source and each signon is defined by a name. It would be helpful if the s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Connect to Infor on AWS DataLake

We are moving to use Infor on AWS Datalake. We have problem with set up data connection. Contacted Cognos support and they said Infor AWS is not supported data source. Now we are having issue using Cognos as reporting tools. Wondering if IBM can a...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

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