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Cognos Analytics

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Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule a Workspace refresh

We need the ability to to schedule a Workspace refresh so that data is refreshed in the background and doesn't have to be manually refreshed by the user each time and have to watch it refresh on screen which can take time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Offer a 64-bit connector to IBM Optim inside Cognos Analytics

We need a data source connector in Cognos Analytics (11.x) that can connect to IBM InfoSphere Optim Archives in 64-bit mode. We are running Cognos 11 in 64-bit only mode, and there is no connector for Optim that works there, only a 32-bit ODBC. Th...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

PRS-NOP-1056 error using tree prompt with multiple datasource connections

Client has datasource with multiple connections. When report is run user must choose one. When there is a tree prompt the datasource prompt is bypassed and the tree is displayed. Expanding the tree causes a PRS-NOP-1056 error. Bug is same as COGCQ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'.

Client Esri: Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'. When running a report Cognos forces the browser to use 'IE 5 Quirks mode' (called 'Quirks mode' in IE 8 and 9 and 'IE 5 Quirks mode' in IE 10 and 11). This c...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQLDB instance

JNetDirect driver is fairly old in Cognos BI, so it would very nice to have does updated to support using Microsoft Azure SQL DB instances as contentstore.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration