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Cognos Analytics

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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

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under 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

Add Sort Option to Map visualization

We want to visualize monitoring alert data on a geo map. Every alert has a severity value and a related color (red=critical, ...). Currently there is no sort option availailable for e.g. the map point color data item. As a sort option is also avai...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to Content Store Data

Ultimate Software takes user requests for future development actions. The largest request we have by far is the ability for a BI administrator to be able to report on how their content is secured at this time. Currently, for auditing purposes, cus...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration