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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Revamp Event Studio User Experience based on Carbon Design

Cognos Analytics User Experience has been revamped based on carbon design in 11.2, however the Event Studio tool has not been updated since 10.2.x version. We do not show event studio during our prospective customer presentations, because of how o...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration
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Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dynamic Cubes relative time members in Dashboards

Would like the ability to use relative time members when creating dashboards, eg. current year, from Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release