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Cognos Analytics

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Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog E.g: Screen reader announces 'Edit options' for Edit options link
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Use geospatial functions on geodata type without making a SQL Table in Data module

We want to use spatial functions with spatial data type in informix in a datamodule. We have a lot of tables containing a spatial data type. We want it to have it like in framework manager. DEV TS005539448: I got a response from dev team and there...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A widgets in dashboarding, in which data item should always be returned in complete

I want to make a diagram. On the X-as I want ALL the months of a year. As a measure I want the number of Invoices (as an example). Nowadays a month doesn't appear when there are no Invoices in that month. Still, I want to keep seeing the month on ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tranformer Enhancement

I'm unable use a data module in to the cube. We want to import an excel and merge it with a package and use it as source or a report created from it as source but i could not import such report/package designed from data module?
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics on Cloud Office support

Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud - on demand subscriptions don't support Microsoft Office cognos add-in . Our customers need to integrate some reports into their ms word based annual reports.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy and paste Prompt page to another report

In the version 11.1.3 is impossible to copy and paste prompt page from one report to another. In the version 10.2.2 is a very useful feature, can you enable in the new version?
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translation of functions and operators as per user preferences language

The report functions were translated according to the installation language in Serie 7It would be great to have the same in Cognos Analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration