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Cognos Analytics

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Provide documentation on upgrade best practices

It would be very helpful to know IBMs best practice recommendations with upgrades to Cognos Analytics. Here's an example why... With quarterly releases we have been looking for ways to streamline our upgrade process and wondered if republishing th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

ability to show what users are logged into Cognos analytics

when doing maintenance, you do not know who is in the system, so you might drop them as you restart the CM or dispatcher.. it would be nice to be able to see who is logged in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

MapBox map extensions for report creating

There is no possibility to change MapBox options like:- set the Colour scale / point scale- change the Map presentation- create different layers for the regional analysis- change the point symbol These options are required for a better Map Intelli...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

execute reports, data sets, and jobs using a webhook

The modern data stack involves various technologies for extraction, loading, and transformation of data. Achieving appropriate sequence across technologies can be a challenge but webhooks can resolve this issue to allow different platforms to comm...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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