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Cognos Analytics

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Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Schedule From Executing if the Current Execution Has Not Completed

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over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under 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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Lets Get Rid of the Big White Blinking Page in Reporting!

User is viewing a Cognos report, and executes a drill through or refresh...Page goes white, animated gif starts spinning forever, while you're looking at a white page...drill through report applications are elegant, except for this behavior! This ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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