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Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security Rest API to Fetch User Details missing key information

/grc/api/security/users/OpenPagesAdministrator/roles lists all the roles assigned to user on the business entity as follows { "roleName": "IAM - All Data - Limited Admin", "objectTypeName": "SOXBusEntity", "id": "1", "role": "39", "folder": "/_op_...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

improve MDX performance in TI

Dear Sirs, we wanted to check the performance in v12 concerning MDX and ElComp-function concerning one dimension. In v11 the performance with ElComp was much better, we thought that with v12 the performance concerning MDX will be improved, however...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Under review

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Data Module Navigation Paths can't be applied in a common data module and pulled into another data module

If you have a data module with common tables in it, i.e. date and locations. The folders, sorting and calculations do get pulled forward. If you want a navigation path it must be added into the data module you are adding the common data module to
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release