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Cognos Analytics

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Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Extend REST API to import/export Cognos content

We need a possibility to import/export Cognos content via REST API. There should be an interface where we can do the following tasks: Upload Cognos content (zip file) and parametrized import/export Parts of the Manage UI that should be completely ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Run the schedule (or subscription) once

Add a "Run the schedule/subscription once" feature to "My Schedules and Subscriptions"
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Page or Dashboard Tabs as tooltips

Improves User Experience
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Improvement of Table visualization in Cognos Dashboard

I would like to be able to change the column size of the columns in table in Cognos Dashboard. Just add the same resize handle as we have in a crosstab
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release