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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

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

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

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder structure within Cognos Mobile App

The ability to create a folder structure within the Cognos Mobile App so that the entry screen to downloaded reports is not cluttered and can be organised into groupings
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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