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Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

RHEL SELinux Support required for Cognos Analytics

At this time SELinux is not a supported configuration for Cognos Analytics. Our internal default policy has changed with Redhat 7 and by default SELinux is activated. We would need Cognos Analytics to follow the default policies from Redhat 7 SELi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Absence of rate limiting

Observation: During testing, we observed that the application lacks a rate-limiting mechanism for login attempts. Specifically, we were able to execute more than 500 brute-force login requests without any rate limiting or blocking in place.
10 months ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Foreign key with on update "cascade"

As part of the SQL 92 standard, there is a referential action for foreign key that allows to update on cascade. The following link is the SQL 92 standard:http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt In the Section 11.8, there is the f...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Combo Charts: Columns and lines get fed from the same dimensions

Currently columns and lines need to be fed from different dimenskons. To fully leverage that chart type, it needs to be possible to have columns and bars fed from the same dimension.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow CPD Admin to list all "Connection" objects and check whether tha connection is using Personal or Shared Credential

CPD allows user to create connection with Personal or Shared credential. By the default, the option is default to Shared Credential. Almost enterprise organization prevent their user to use shared credential, so there is a requirement to allow CPD...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration