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Cognos Analytics

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Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drill through not working in saved active reports

In Cognos 11.0.11, when you run an active report in the background and save the reportversion, the drill through links in the report do not work. They only work when the active report is run interactively. This is related to PMR ID 24579227000.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encript passwords in Configuration export

Password(hashed) in Cognos configuration is visible in Cognos configuration export. Need to create option to hide/encrypt passwords entered in Cognos configuration when exporting configuration to a file
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide chart axes in Dashboarding

Need an additional property available on charts within Dashboarding to hide chart axes. Charts already have many properties available on the x and y axis respectively but there is no option to hide the axis line entirely like there is in reporting.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XAML Support for Cognos Analytics

We need to authenticate internal and external users and our company prefer to use XAML for this. Can we add this to Cognos Analytics as a supported solution.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

If the password expires, the user can register a new password.

When the password expires, the customer will not be able to log in and change the password.If the customer can move to the password change screen even in this state, the customer can register a new password.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration