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Cognos Analytics

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Allow user to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard)

Dear,Could we envisage to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard) in order to pass extra values to drill-through.
about 6 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.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Base JMeter test plan for load and stability testing Cognos Analytics

It would very useful to have an Apache JMeter test plan to probe an IBM Cognos Analytics installs for stability under load. Just a base test plan that admins and consultants can use as a reasonable starting point in order to place Cognos Analytics...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Group Repeating Cells - Export to Excel Default Value

System: Cognos Analytics 11 ReportsActor: User running daily reports Cognos Analytics 11 Reports are scheduled to run daily to analyze different portions of the business and are commonly exported to Excel. Description: Our team writes Daily report...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support rendering of Mapbox maps in PDF with "show values" property

Map visualizations are rendered in the browser as HTML but the ability to render maps showing values in PDF would increase adoption among our client base. This will be especially true when custom polygons are supported. The initial zoom level (e.g...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration