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Cognos Analytics

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Remove en-us suffix when background running reports file name

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort on lists - Cognos viewer

Some IBM Clients, like Banco do Brasil, need a functionality that sorts the data on list/crosstab columns on Cognos Viewer when generating a Report Studio HTML Report. Nowadays, it`s possible using Active Reports and Workspace, but it is also need...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

option to remove the localization from Report Filenames

at the moment you have no possibility to remote the localization from a Report Filename stored in FileSystem oder sent by mail. Exsample: Report1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.pdfReport1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.xlsx It would be nice,...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration