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Cognos Analytics

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Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

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

New chart feature Required

We are unable to show the percentage and Total Sum in the same chart. The total should be shown on the top and the details will be shown as percentage. The percentage chart shouldn't be 100% stacked.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Port Cognos to ARM for Windows

ARM processors are the future. ARM processors provide significant infrastructure savings in large farms of servers.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Data module: add governors

Governors should be available in data modules like they are in Framework Manager. For example it is currently not possible to prevent local processing.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: model automation

Our modelers don't want to create their complex/big models completely manually. They need to create models partially by scripts which can be executed over the data module UI, like it is possible in Framework Manager. This possibility should be con...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: add namespaces

Like in Framework Manager namespaces should be available in Data Modules, too. Namespaces are advantageous for bigger models and to be able to move them to another locaction without breaking reports.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data module: custom relationship expressions

Like in Framework Manager it should be possible to edit relationship expressions. For example when a filter should be added to the relationship expression.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration