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Cognos Analytics

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Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view.

we need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view. Cognos 11.2 remembers the last option selected, and it presents it to the user. The "List" view must be called and overwrite any pre-existing view.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Measure String Elements grouping (group by for numeric data) in List, Cross Tabs, Charts PA as Source data

While using Planning Analytics Cube as source over REST API call, if we have a measure dimension with string elements or picklist elements these elements can also should be used as one of the virtual dimension to view the cube measure numeric elem...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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