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Cognos Analytics

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New chart feature Required

We are unable to show the percentage and Total Sum in the same chart. The total should be shown on the top and the details will be shown as percentage. The percentage chart shouldn't be 100% stacked.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Custom Controls to be supported in Prompt Pages

We provide Cognos to our clients and this includes standard reporting templates. Our DQM solution uses a tree prompt against a relational package. The Java takes the tree nodes and converts the syntax to work with a relational filter. Unfortunatel...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for all High Availability Disaster Recovery features for all supported Content Store Databases

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence does currently not offer support for High Availability Disaster Recovery Features (HADR) of Databases that are used as Content Stores. Full support for all HADR Features of each supported Content Store Database Typ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

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

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration