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Cognos Analytics

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Make field descriptions and screen tips also available for Analytics Users

We get more and more questions on the visibility of data lineage and data dictionary entries of data items in packages and data modules for analytics users for compliancy reasons. At this moment an author can see the description and screen tip of ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Assistant / Ask a question in Reporting

The assistant functionality where questions can be asked is readily available in Dashboards & Explorations. This RFE is to add similar functionality in reporting. We have a use-case where business-oriented people, that would only occasionally ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration