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Cognos Analytics

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Allow Columns to be Reordered in Data Modules

Today, it is not possible in a Data Module to change the order of columns from the existing order of the underlying data source. This functionality should be added to Data Modules
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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

Add Capabilities tab to Data module's Properties like FM package has

We want to control which group has access to specific capabilities on a data module.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard tooltips for duplicate items

Current functionality means that if a data item is on a visualisation as both a field and a tooltip it won't show in the tooltip. For example, if the Revenue data item is used for bar length and again in the visualisation tooltip, then the tooltip...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Appending Month Name or Fiscal Period to the PDF Report Output

The requirement is whenever we schedule a report can we get the current month/ fiscal period appended with the report name once we get the output in View history ex :- ABC_DEC2017 or ABC_DEC_FY-17 where ABC is the name of the file? I need this DEC...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration