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Cognos Analytics

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Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dedicated dispatcher for different data sources

We have configuration conflict to set up realm kerberos to connect to different HADOOP systems. In out krb5.conf, We have to hard-coded realm name for the HADOOP system. But this limits us to connect to other HADOOP systems that need different rea...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable nesting items bellow and next to each other in visualization like it used to work in old cognos charts

We need to be able to drag elements next to each other and bellow each other in the same visualization to be able to combine elements and show what is requested in dsahboards. Especially important for OALP sources. Typically you want to have two l...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for Multiple User Sessions

Issue : Application shows multiple users sessionsObservation : Session Management
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logging of data in Audit Table even when report prompt values are cached

We need to understand that how the logs are created in the Audit table because when the prompt values are submitted it is creating a log in the Audit table with the corresponding report name. So it is affecting the monthly audit average data. Even...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration