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Cognos Analytics

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Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job, How do we identify what job/report is associated with what location, Also missing the information of what dispatcher is executing a particular Job li...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Format Axis Min Max

We request the ability to change the min and max boundaries of each axis.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log Viewer - bring it back!

As many were use to using in prior versions of Cognos -- LogViewer was a great program. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lines some file was updated and it got hosed in C11 -- and now is not even shipped with the product. Customers/Clients/Admin...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt CAMPassword for parameterized URL

Using a parameterized URL to open dashboards, reporte, ... including login credentials, the CAMPassword value can only be passed as plaintext value. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/parameterized-url-perform-login-and-open-dashboard-or-report For...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration