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Cognos Analytics

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Allow upload of .py files for Jupyter Notebooks into CA

When working with Jupyter notebooks within a CA envrionment there appears to be no way to re-use python code from 1 book to the next as CA restricts the types of file types that can be uploaed. This means for any functions that you would like to r...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 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

Add the Go Sale dimensional sample model to the on demand version

Hello,As dimensional modelling and development is an important part of Cognos Analytics, I don't understand why there is no dimensional sample model on the on demand version. This would help people to understand, test and train on the dimensionnal...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Cognos - Simultaneous Login

It was observed that parallel session and authorization check is possible. It was observed that the user can login into the account simultaneously from 2 different browsers.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Bullet Visualization

In the Dashboard tool, I would like to have a vertical Bullet Graph. The actual Bullet Graph seem only offer the possibility to display it horizontally.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create package from TM1 datasource having multiple connection without using FM

We would like to have the option to create a package directly in cognos administration for tm1/cognos planning data source type (without using Framework Manager) when there is several data connections defined for the data source. Today when we are...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration