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Cognos Analytics

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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

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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

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

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted