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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

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

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

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

AD Group Security Management for Cloud

The ask is not different than what is recently became available for local version of Planning Analytics. It would be beneficial if security could be managed for TM1Web, PaW, etc. through AD rather manual management.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub 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