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My ideas: Cognos Analytics

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Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Additional spaces in a Value Prompt when static values used

Additional empty spaces in a Value Prompt/ Radio button prompt in a interactive report when static values used and multiselect set to yes. No additional spaces in non interactive report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos SQL generation control in Server Setting

Many reports / packages have been developed and deployed by users.It takes time and cost to implement SQL correction for each report package.There is a need for a method that responds with restrictions on the entire system.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Appending Month Name or Fiscal Period to the PDF Report Output

The requirement is whenever we schedule a report can we get the current month/ fiscal period appended with the report name once we get the output in View history ex :- ABC_DEC2017 or ABC_DEC_FY-17 where ABC is the name of the file? I need this DEC...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimize querying on model using bridge table

Use of 'SELECT DISTINCT' on the bridge table part of a model is unusable in real life. When you have millions of records, query have low performance
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration