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Cognos Analytics

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Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Cognos Audit

We need to create Audit report for showing usage of reports ,Cognos - Dashboard ,Data Module ,Story and exploration .We need usage/audit data from Cognos Dashboard,Data Modules and all the new tools added in CA 11 to be updated in Audit database i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Users can like reports, dashboards

Users can like reports, dashboards and send feedback to specific object.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Sort Order

In Cognos 11.2 onwards, we should be able to sort the content in Team Content/My Content irrespective of the type of the object. Right now, if I sort, it first lists all the folders followed by Package. It should be sorted just like it was in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Disable User Accounts When Option Checked

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, a user account could be disabled by placing a check in the appropriate box within the user's advanced profile property sheet. This box, still exists but for whatever reason no longer works as one would exp...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Improve the custom banner feature

Consider this scenario... There is a problem with the daily loads or I have developed a cool new report and I want to notify all cognos users of this. The Cognos banner might be a great way to do just that... But my Cognos environment is managed &...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted