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Cognos Analytics

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Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

“Select & Search prompt” is not available when using a Data Module source

When creating a new report based on a Data Module, users lose the Select and Search prompt, which is available in a Framework Manager package source. Please refer to the attached which also contains other enhancement requests.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Cognos Analytics with SAP Hana

We are looking for a solution to integrate Cognos to SAP Hana as data source connection.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support but ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release