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Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...

4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

4 VOTE

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...

7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Report Page or Dashboard Tabs as tooltips

Improves User Experience

about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

2 VOTE

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...

4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...

about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

3 VOTE

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"

6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

2 VOTE

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...

4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

2 VOTE

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...

4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

3 VOTE

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...

6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

5 VOTE

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...

11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

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