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Cognos Analytics

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Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future 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

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Get back custom scale as it was in charts, zero suppress, custom maximum...

Graphical customization capability of reporting module had been improved as of release 11 but it is still well behind it was in 10.2.2, for example:- Bar charts do not allow the old option "stack 100%", it can be done by calculation but in that ca...
over 6 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Filter widgets on all tabs when interacting with widget

If our dashboard has several tabs, our users expect the widgets on the other tabs to filter if they are interacting with a widget on a different tab. This is how it works in other tools they use.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For reports run interactively, display the report location.

When you run multiple reports with the same name, there is no way from the Welcome drop down to determine each report location making it impossible to differentiate between them. See file Attachments for a screenshot or view this forum post:https:...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration