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Cognos Analytics

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Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Custom Authentication should be able to be debuged.

Currently if you try to debug a Custom Authentication Provider it is slow and unable. This is related to the Websphere Liberty addion. Some one in dev needs to look to see how to set this up so when trying to debug is not completly unusable. Also ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted