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Cognos Analytics

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Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 - Scheduled Jobs access issue

ISSUE: Jobs in a secured "scheduled jobs" folder are set to have READ only access. In our validation of the 11.0.7, it was observed that the run option is provided to users with read access to this folder. This allows the user to trigger jobs to run.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditing capabilities to include changes in access permissions

The current Audit logging does not include changes to access permissions on Cognos objects. We would like changes to access permission on Cognos objects to be included in the Audit logging. The information should include who (what user) changed wh...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Last year, Prev Year in Dynamic Cubes

Hi, Can you please add the functinalitiy from Transfomer to create automatically Last Year, prev year month etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Virtual Cube Aggregation pushed to Base Cube

When performing a distinct count in the virtual cubes in the where a filter is applied the distinct count results are performed for the members used in the filter and then aggregated using a sum, rather than filtering the data then performing the ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration