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Cognos Analytics

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Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort Column on Packages in Data Modules (Month Name)

Currently relational Framework packages are not able to sort Month Name by date. This creates dashboarding problems for users trying to do ad-hoc analysis on governed data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Default Settings For Tools

We would like the ability to change or save the default settings in tools. Currently in a tool (ex Report Studio) if we change the settings under Options, the settings are not retained if we close the tool and reopen it again. We would like the ab...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic fixing of schedule parameter selections when there is change of MUN

Report schedule fails when there is a change in MUN in report parameter selection.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration