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Cognos Analytics

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Monthly subscription

CA11 introduced 'subscriptions' which currently only allows selection on day (monday -> sunday) and time. It would be useful to also have monthly/quaterly... options, same as what is available in scheduling. All the more as they appear as regul...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add an option to open dashboard in edit mode directly

To edit dashboard you have to open it and then click "Edit or preview". Many beginners do not know that and they ask us and they spend our time. They also say that they do not have permissions to edit dashboards but in fact they have. Because firs...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reset prompts and run option should clear the prior selected prompts or do not use the word 'Reset'.

Currently, the 'Reset prompts and run' option only takes you back to the prompt page. It does not clear the prior selected prompt choices. The word 'Reset' is misleading. User believe it should clear the prior selected prompts. Make this option cl...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Samples installer containing all Cognos samples

Currently there are a few sources for cognos samples. We would like to have one single installer for all cognos samples. From the installer it should be possible to select the required samples like Transformer Cubes, Dynamic Cubes, new CA samples ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Filtering Linked Tables in Data Modules without breaking the link

Master Data Modules are shared globally in our Cognos Analytics environment to allow users to link to their own data modules containing their fact data. This allows the business community to easily reap the benefits of dimensional data (navigation...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Users should have the ability to see/change timezone assocation of schedules

Users should be able to explicitly define a timezone for a scheduled execution of a report, event or other Cognos object irrespective of their timezone setting under user preferences. The scheduling interface should allow you to select a timezone ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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