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Cognos Analytics

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Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AI Assistant on the welcome page

To use AI Assistant, the user needs to be inside a data model or data package. However; it would be more efficient if it can be displayed on the welcome screen so the user can use AI Assistant to navigate and browse entire data sets and select one...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, Content Store, Audit Store and Notification Store databases are hosted on a Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance. Authentication mode is Azure Active Directory Integrated Authentication for the databases. As of now Cognos Analytics supports on...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Folder Security

We would like to have a feature that allows a user to create contentwithin a folder(reports, other folders, etc..), but disallows them frombeing able to delete any content. In other words, we would like it suchthat 'write' permissions don't necess...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better support for rendering CA Dashboarding visializations on a mobile device

Rendering of charts on mobile device in Cognos Analytics is challenging. Navigation, readability, usability are not optimized for a mobile device
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add end date option in subscribe report menu

Self service reportingSubscribe report menu Currently there is no way to define an end date while subscribing a report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration