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Cognos Analytics

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Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release
103 VOTE

Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Advanced Drill Behaviour in Full Interactivity Mode

Advanced drill behaviour is disabled for fully interactive mode because of which,unable to assign level labels and users are getting confused about the level on which they are presentUnable to drill down on data points in chart
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cubes relative time members in Dashboards

Would like the ability to use relative time members when creating dashboards, eg. current year, from Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release