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Cognos Analytics

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Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

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

Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

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