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My ideas: Reporting

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implement EXISTS or NOT EXISTS operator in reporting

I would like to have the possibility to use in reporting the sql EXIST operator available. I don't like to write manual sql because of manteniance and portability or use other shortcuts or alternative to implement the sql EXIST logic for example u...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration