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Cognos Analytics

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AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy readable links with correct report/folder path

In Cognos 10 you can copy a folder or a report name in cognos connection. When you paste this to an Email, you get a readable link with the whole path. eg Folder1>Folder2>Reportname In Cognos 11 this is not possible. The only way is to sh...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to convert Views and Tables in Data Modules into the Data Set.

If you have been building a Data Module and notice that Data Sets are required to improve the product performance it is very cumbersome to start building the Data Set using the Data Set editor and then replacing the Tables and Views in Data Module...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - ability to ADD a filter that the user cannot change

Assume I have a Bar Chart that includes a YEAR filter for 2 years of Data. At run time a User can Delete that FILTER and change what I want as permanent FILTER for that WIDGET.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Date when user added into particular group

We would like to know when each user got access to Cognos. Currently when we add users into user group, we can see the user names only. We would like to see the date when individual user got added.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Story To mp4 video

Add the ability to export a Story to a video file, like .mp4. It should auto-play through all slides (like RFE#100967), and ideally allow for saving at "low" and "high" resolution.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Read Data from package with prompt parameters

We are looking to read data from a package that contains query subjects with required prompt parameters due to potential data volume returned from source database. We are not currently able to read these data sources into a pandas dataframe in our...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix needed: Schedule and subscription prompt values reset to default when you click Edit

On an existing schedule or subscription, when a user clicks Edit on prompt values, instead of displaying the prompt page with the saved prompt values selected, it displays the "default" prompt values for the report. The report may have no saved pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration