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My ideas: Cognos Analytics

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Multiple extensions on app bar based up on permission

If we assign multiple custom folders to one user role, currently the product will only one custom folder to appear and there is no way to tell which one will show.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non-https URLs in dashboard

Cant add an http URL in the dashboard only https. This prevents adding intranet URLs and also known safe http sites
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Glossary on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Size of Cognos Generated Prompt (Select Box)

The Cognos generated prompt shows up with a very small width and the user has to use the scroll bar to see the entire value. Need this box to get the width of the maximum length of the values in the prompt.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report output saved to multiple filesystems.

We would like to have the ability to save report outputs to multiple shared filesystems, where report output is save under folders who's name relates to the actual reports names. CASE number for reference:TS000067038
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress option not available for Data module reports

We noticed that suppress option is not available in the report when it is created from data module.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration