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Cognos Analytics

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Virtual Cube Aggregation pushed to Base Cube

When performing a distinct count in the virtual cubes in the where a filter is applied the distinct count results are performed for the members used in the filter and then aggregated using a sum, rather than filtering the data then performing the ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Digital Signature on Cognos report studio report by users

Dear IBM, Users are looking for a functionality to sign digitally to avoid validating the reports by taking printouts every day. Could you please let me know how to get this functionally/option to sign digitally by end users. Thanks, Karunakar
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Would like to see integration of PowerPlay with Cognos Analytics 11 as in older versions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Last year, Prev Year in Dynamic Cubes

Hi, Can you please add the functinalitiy from Transfomer to create automatically Last Year, prev year month etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integration of Dynamic Cubes to CloudPaks

we use very often dynamic cubes as OLAP modelling engine. Our transformer cubes models are dynamic cubes, now. We want to migrate to cloud services, but as far as i know, dynamic cubes aren't supported here. Is there a way to enable / embed dynam...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

“Cascading Prompt“ Functionality in “My Parameters”

In Recent release of Cognos Analytics R7, New Function called "My Parameters". There is no "Cascading Prompt” in "My Parameters”, Will It be possible for "Cascading Prompt" in "My Parameters”? The Prompts in "My Parameters" are independent, ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration