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Cognos Analytics

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Member Caption in Context Filter is out of Sync

The captions of the dimension elements in the context filter do not update after a rebuild of the cube. The data source already contains the new caption, but the report still contains the old one. (See screenshot in appendix).The same, wrong behav...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drag and drop set additions for reporting (like Analysis Studio did)

In Analysis Studio, you can drag additional items into a set, and it lets you and they stay as one set. This then allows calculations and summary data to be based on all the data in the set. In Reporting, you can't drop and drop additional items, ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back the Cube updated date into Reporting

In Analysis Studio, you can very easily see when Transformer cubes were built. This is extremely useful for our users, so that they know for sure they're using fresh data. This functionality appears missing in Reporting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Selecting other data module in reporting

Selecting other data module in reporting: make it possible to have two data modules in the report module next to a package
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Copy a report causes broken links

When copying a development version of a report to live, the report is overwritten, but all report views are broken, even though the location of the report and name remain the same.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module

Unable to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration