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My ideas: Cognos Analytics

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Watermark in Dashboarding

We need to distinghish Dashbaords build by end users and dashbaords build by BI-Team (validated) For this it would be a good practise to add a "Watermark" option which can be added (based on security groups) to the dashbaords.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Access Management

Over time we had many users and many of them become idle, left IBM or got another role. Keeping these users generates risk. We want to remove these users and I couldn't remove them all by one step. I had to do it one by one and it took a lot of ti...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

One Filter for multiple Datasource-Types in Dashboards

We need a cognos analytics dashboard using multiple source types (e.g. dynamic cube and a relational modeled package). When defining filters for e.g. the time dimension, the widgets using data from a dynamic cube and widgets using data from a rela...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

MapBox map extensions for report creating

There is no possibility to change MapBox options like:- set the Colour scale / point scale- change the Map presentation- create different layers for the regional analysis- change the point symbol These options are required for a better Map Intelli...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Better user error on termination of runaway DQM query

We want to use Cognos Analytics dashboards for ad hoc data exploration, but we need to put limits on query run time so that one user doesn't monopolize DBMS resources. The Framework Manager governor Query Execution Time Limit does not apply to dyn...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration