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Cognos Analytics

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Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to find all corresponding Cognos models for all packages and reports currently used in Cognos Connection.

Need to find all corresponding Cognos models for all packages and reports currently used in Cognos Connection. Or using another method is acceptable.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to sort Waterfall by greatest change value

Using the Waterfall visualization, there is not a good way to sort the sub-categories. More specifically, if you are using a "Change" Waterfall which calculates variances, you must recalculate the variance manually if you wish to sort the sub-cate...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics OpenID Pass-through authentication to HANA

Cognos Analytics using OpenID with OKTA for two factor authentication and pass-through authentication to HANA
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add BigQuery Connector to Cognos On Demand Trial

Unable to evaluate Cognos because no bigquery connection available.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add option to search members in hierarchy by MUN not just by caption

today we can search elements in the hierarchy (for dimensional packages) by caption (right click the hierarchy in the navigation tree > search members...) and we would appreaciate to search by member unique names as those are the only one uniqu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration