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Cognos Analytics

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Add support to Jethro datasource over JDBC

Cognos Platform: Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 on Linux We are planning on using Jethro(https://jethro.io/) as an acceleration layer on top of our data lake built on Hadoop with Cognos Analytics as the front end. Jethro offers connectivity to ext...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

request to pass report xml through form parameter to run report with modified xml

Hi, we are trying to build a form page/url with parameters to run cognos analytics report (cognos 11 report with Interactivity set to Yes) like the way we do in cognos 10. in Cognos 10, we used to post the following parameters to run the report si...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress “your report is running' message when user select any Cascading Prompts on prompt page

Currently at NYC DSS agency, Management Console Cognos/ Netezza reporting system having 100 reports developed by IBM and maintained by DSS ITS. As per user requirement, we would like IBM Cognos software to suppress ‘your report is running' messa...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Confusion Matrix for decision tree

The view of confusion matrix is not available when Decision tree is generated for data analysis . It should be made available.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove entries in the archived report tab that have been deleted from the external repository.

Reports that were deleted form Filenet P8 still display in the the Cognos content store. The date and time the deleted report were run are still viewable from the archived report portal, though an output is not available.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration