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Cognos Analytics

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103 VOTE

Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

As a Business Analyst, I would like to be able to save my DataSet via Cloud connexion

To have a scalable native storage of dataset, I would like to be able to set as storage target the Cloud connexion defined for the IBM Cognos Analytics platform If the data files are in parquet format, it would be ideal
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

In Cognos log: Change Classification of expected behaviour from Level ERROR to INFO

As of now in the Cognos log files there are a great amount of lines classified as error eventhough it is an expected behaviour. Could you please chnage the classification of these expected behaviours to either info or maybe a new level. This would...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release