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Cognos Analytics

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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...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Specify Namespace without Gateway

As Cognos Analytics does not require the use of a Gateway it is being requested that the ability to specify the namespace to be used is provided. This functionality exists when using a gateway and specifying the Gateway namespace.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio this is the same concept Power BI has and its in top position we already had it in report studio i dont know wh...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability in Workspace Advanced to filter on level attribute

Hi, Our customer needs to create List reports based on Olap source, and wishes the possibility to filter on Level attributes.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix Output Version sort issue

We have burst output being saved, but when viewing the saved output versions of the reports often they are not sorted as specified by our burst key. When running the job that bursts the reports, the report output versions are being generated in or...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration