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Cognos Analytics

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Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide Transformer in Cloud for Clients building against DashDB

Currently customers that are building Transformer PowerCubes on premise against DashDB in the cloud are forced to leverage IQDs (32-bit) due to the excessive round-trips of the data when using DQM data sources (64-bit). This is necessitating a slo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress option not available for Data module reports

We noticed that suppress option is not available in the report when it is created from data module.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Upgrading cognos content store wipes out recent activity

Cognos Analytics 11.0.12 upgrade is wiping out user's recent activity from welcome page and as well as from recent activity menu item on clicking
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive mode crosstab wrong summary when expanding

When running a report in interactive mode having a cross tab (dimensionally modeled) and you have a set and a summary on rows. When expanding one member the summary double counts the result since both the member and the children now are visible. T...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to saved versions in Schedules

Something that I find unfavorable at least is the ability to access stored versions of schedules based on jobs, or the ability to see which items have been executed or have caused an error.This applies both to my schedules and subsciptions and dir...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to see all users Personal folders when I log-in as Administrator

We need feature that when admin person logs-in to C11 (Cognos Analytics), he/she should be able to see all users contents from their personal folders (My Folders content). Case I opened with IBM Cognos Support is "TS001471285" and Analysts confirm...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for users to deploy Cognos content between environments

Provide functionality that empower users to deploy Cognos Analytics content between environments (Dev, QC, UAT, Prod) without requiring access to copy deployment archive zip files between environments.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration