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Cognos Analytics

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AODA compliance requirements, Cognos to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to expire

As per AODA compliance requirements, Cognos is required to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to time out. Currently this functionality in not available.
over 6 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

Set Report and Dashboard Full Screen as Default view

Allow Developers to set the Default View for Non-Developer Users to Full Screen. At this moment, there's no way of hiding the Appbar or Navbar without modifying the URL 95% of our user base a Consumer Type, they do not need access to see the Bars ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under 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

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future 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

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

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration