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Dashboard - Renaming Data Item Fields/Label and Field Header display

On the Cognos Analytics Dashboard, currently there are no direct way to rename "Data Item Name" and "Data Item Label" (Display name). This feature available in Congos Reports - where users can click on the field and chose to Rename "Data Item Name...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow third party front-end application

Product is "Planning analytics on cloud", not "Cognos analytics on cloud": We are currently working in the IBM Planning analytics cloud at our customers and trying to implement our standard solution “Apollo”. As we have our own front-end (MOSAIK...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

De-couple view window from Excel-sheet

When one opens a view in PAfE, it stays in the front, even when one clicks beside into an Excel cell. One has to minimize the window actively to pull the Excel-sheet to the front. The normal Windows behavior for overlapping windows is, that the on...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Action Button Synchronise with cell of view.

We want the ability to click on a cell in a cube view and use the dimension context in an Action Button in PAW. Currently this can be achieved in a Websheet using the Advanced options "Selected DBRW" option, but not in a PAW view/book. An example ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow batch export on non-BDI-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow Investigation on non-API-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Expand/Collapse in dashboard

You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Official documentation of FMP enhancement variables DB2_AGENT_CACHING_FMP and DB2_MAX_THREADS_PER_FMP

Valuable enhancements for db2fmp processing have been added back in Db2 V8 and V9 already via APAR (e.g. IZ08425), but they are still NOT documented for Db2 V10 and V11, although they are valid and available. Concerning Java stored procedure handl...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration