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Cognos Analytics

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Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Disable viewing subsets for selected Planning Analytics dimensions

Having many subsets in Planning Analytics dimensions is very heavy for Cognos Analytics when loading the package. We would like to chose if CA have to load subsets for a dimension in a cube or not: for some dimensions is very helpful to see all su...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OptimeYes

This brings to your notice that Cognos analytics does support numbers of database instead of IBM InfoSphere Optim Archive as JDBC data source type because there is no driver available in Cognos analytics about Optim Archive. Could anyone suggest u...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.3 in Cognos Analytics 11.0

To allow the product to support current security standards, TLS 1.3 should be added to the security options for Cognos Analytics 11.0.x
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Folder usage within Data modules

I am trying to use folders within my data module so the users can distinctly see the dimensions and navigational paths
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Is a defect

Report Delivery Option To SFTP Server

Many integration can be done using file exchange between two systems. Cognos can be used to extract data from the source system to be delivered to external system for ingestion. Currently, the only option to deliver data file to another sftp serve...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration