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Cognos Analytics

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Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Have Audit Log show when Report is cancled due to the Report Server Execution time limit.

The system has the following configuration setting on the Report Server service: Maximum execution Time for the report service (seconds) = 3600 When reports hit this time limit, the Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT) shows:RSV-SRV-0063 An error occ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

add Memority Support in Cognos Analytics

add Memority as a supported identity Management in Cognos Analytics https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/prereqsForProduct?deliverableId=C2ACFFC08DA411E7A1A213628837956C#sw-9
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 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)
over 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration