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Cognos Analytics

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When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to write SQL to build Dashboard visualization

Currently there is no way to control the sql generated by a dashboard. Sometimes a complex query is required to build a visualization. Please add the ability to write queries within a dashboard.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Roll-up on Dynamic Cubes when using security

Making Roll-up available when securing a Dynamic Cube
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CyberArk Integration

Support Cognos Administration teams in the integration of Cognos applications into CyberArk so that Cognos application passwords are managed within CyberArk.Remediate Cognos applications so that application passwords are retrieved from CyberArk. E...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DCadmin.bat dynamic cube utility needs to support SSO

dcadmin.bat does not work for environments with SSO..Baxter has a large complicated global multiple dispatcher environment which is now bring on dynamic cubes... administration of many Dynamic cubes is very painful from within Cognos, sometimes im...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize the Annoucements home page header

We customize a home page to announce activities that occur in Cognos to the team. The “Announcements” home page is sourced from report under “Team content". The report output format is default “HTML”. The “Announcements” home page is created by us...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration