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Cognos Analytics

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Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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

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

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

Option to open a dashboard with filter panel collapsed

I would like the ability to open a dashboard with the dashboard filters panel collapsed until the user selects the option to expand the filters panel.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

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

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Not under consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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