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Cognos Analytics

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Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add dashboard und datamodule to folder und package functions for permission control

There is no option to specify functionpermissions for packages and folders regarding dashboards and the datamodule. The attached screenshot shows the possible options. Moreover the screenshot shows that the options are displayed using the old IU e...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Submitted

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration