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Cognos Analytics

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Extend Audit logging with studio usage

It would be helpful if the use of the studio is recorded in the audit tables. Information about- which users use - which studio and - how often are important and could play a role for statistics, performance and licensing issues.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Labeling Cognos Report Outputs using Microsoft Purview Information Protection SDK

We have a business requirement to add a 'Microsoft Purview Information Protection' tags to a Cognos Report during downloads. Adding these tags to the reports will help in tracking Data Leakage in organization after reports are generated.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Do not break shortcuts when renaming a folder name

The objects are indexed using their search paths, so if the search path breaks when a folder or object in the path changes, then the shortcut link will break.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cache parameterized queries if default values set

Refresh Report Output: When scheduling a report via Job, if we select ‘refresh the report cache', it only refreshes prompt page of the report. How could we refresh report output if data latency is acceptable?
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Legend

The legend position for the chart (pls refer legendpositionvertical pic), the legend is horizontal, we used to see in vertical in 11.0.6. Is there any way we can render it to vertical position on right side.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics integration with Open Source ETL

Currently, the TELCEL client has an open source ETL in which they have more than 100 processes, for transformation, the presentation layer is with Cognos Analytics 11.7. The ETL is Pentaho Data Integration V 8.2 (PDI) also known as Kettle. TELCEL ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted