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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics Restart Time need to be reduced

Transactional Environment where Cognos integrated with Application have very less downtime. Cognos Analytics takes 10-13 mins for each dispatcher to restart.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for Cognos to integrate with Analytics Content Hub

We would like to have the ability for Cognos Analytics in CP4D to integrate with Analytics Content Hub. ACH has the ability to integrate with stand alone CA but not CA in CP4D. We would like to have the integration with CP4D and the Cognos Service.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Saved Report Output to Microsoft OneDrive

My full content store export (backup) is over 70GB because my Cognos users save tons of report output...which they claim they need. I need to drastically reduce they size of my content store database and would like to offload they saved output to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Support for AIP (Azure Information Protection)

Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content. AIP is part of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) solution, and ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

On a Dashboard be able to change the title of item added to a visualization. Plus Column heading size/wrap

In a report report you are able to change the column heading, i.e. Sex_Descr to Sex or Gender. Want to be able to do the same thing on a dashboard. Or Sex_Code to Gender_Code. Users sometimes want to change the title of a field and since you can't...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos BI - Prevent concurrent sessions in Cognos

Please contact glenda.satuito@accenture.com for this request. How Cognos works is that once a user is authenticated, a CAM object will be created in the content manager. This object is referenced by a CAM Passport passed back to the browser. The C...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration