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Cognos Analytics

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Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create view in PAW

I will be shown a view on TM1 "Architect or Perspectives" also when I create a view directly in PAW. (If I create a view in PAW, it will not be shown in TM1)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy or move books

I want to select some books and copy or move them together once. (now I can copy or move books one by one) In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer so...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

produce a report in XML and CSV format with more than one query

The Report Studio user guide states : You can produce a report in HTML PDF CSV various Excel formats and XML. You cannot produce a report in CSV or XML format if you have more than one query defined in the report unless the additional queries are ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date prompts to include period options (Required for scheduling )

It would be grate if date and Date time Prompts would contain Extra options like: Current month Current Year Previous Year This is a big problem for scheduling reports.Yes there are work arounds, However for regular users who create a reports its ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create logging capabilities for the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics to allow tracking usage of the feature

Create a mechanism in the product to allow administrators the ability to understand which of their customers are currently using the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics 11
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration