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Cognos Analytics

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338 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to set limit, that can't be overridden, to number of records retrieved by a query

I know about the Governor setting "Maximum Number of Retrieved Rows", but this can be overridden by modifying the query property "Maximum rows retrieved" directly in the report.I would like the ability to set a limit that cannot be overridden.
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review
249 VOTE

Rerun schedule

Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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