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Cognos Analytics

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Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Submitted

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

My parameters behavior don't have expected behavior

When you're report use the "My parameters" functionnality and save as report view (by using the "save as report view" button), the value of the selection of the "My parameters" is stored in the report view details. When the values has been stored ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Include unsubscribe Link in watch item mails to allow convenient removal of subscriptions.

Overview This proposal outlines an enhancement to IBM Cognos that would allow users to unsubscribe from watch item notifications directly within the email, eliminating the need to manually navigate the Cognos interface. This feature would improve ...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Submitted

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