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Cognos Analytics

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Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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.
almost 7 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Function to include upload file info such as modified date to a report

We need the ability to show when the upload file was created/modified in our data module for dashboard and reports. It is important for the report-users to know when the upload was refreshed. Other upload attributes such as owner and file name mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration