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    Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

    While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

    Restrict the size for a report output

    We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

    Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

    Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
    about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

    Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

    TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

    Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

    The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
    7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

    There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

    enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

    for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Cognos Analytics Excel sheet numbering

    Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

    In Cognos 12.0.4 IF2, I need to set a default prompt using the new dynamic prompt feature. However, it's not letting me set the value I need. It was determined that this is not a defect since specifying the type of value (caption or MUN) is not a feature of the default parameter feature yet. I was told to submit a request for it to be added as an enhancement for a future release.

    Using a report as a dashboard, using a Dynamic Cube, we need to default the dashboard to display the current month of data.
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3

    Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

    Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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