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Cognos Analytics

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Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Summary Options Crosstabs in Dashboards

Users need more summary functionality besides just "hide summaries". We want to be set whether to summarize the rows and columns, just the rows, or just the columns. We also want to be able to display the summaries at the top of the columns or beg...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Copy or Move reports Search Window

When searching for reports , there is no option to copy or move reports to a different folder. This can be helpful to copy/move reports from a large folders having multiple reports with similar name.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed.

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

· Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly

Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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