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Cognos Analytics

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Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add list for measures in dashboard

We would like to drag multiple measures in the layout and have a list to filter the content like sales units, forecasted units,....so that users can select which one to use in chart.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix the Cognos Mashup Services (CMS) so that they can render/retrieve the newer Cognos Analytics (CA) visualization objects

We used to use CMS to embed CA content within our own web pages. Specifically we would use CMS to retrieve report parts, assigning a name within the report design and then using that name to retrieve the HTML fragment through CMS. CMS still works,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Url to run reprots from Sharepoint in the cloud enhancemetn

When a report is published the SharePoint cloud and passing a userid and pw with the parameters does not work in the cloud. This works on prem but not in the cloud. See case TS002005281 and TS003114744. The reports run sometime and when they do, i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to deactivate the export functionalities within PowerPlay Studio for specific User

We want to disable the exporting functionality for a specific user or group in cognos analytics (PowerPlay Studio).
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit Scope of Explorations

Explorations often return large numbers of data columns (attributes and measures) that are not relevant to an exploration. The user is inundated with large numbers of data items making it difficult for the Exploration logic to produce desirable re...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration