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Cognos Analytics

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Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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