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Cognos Analytics

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Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Need a way to tell which roles and/or groups an individual user is in.

When a new user joins the organization, typically we'll get a request that says "give the new user the same rights as user x". In the past, when we had Cognos on prem, I had SQL statements I could run against the content store that would allow me ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create distribution lists within a tenant

In Cognos 11, Distribution Lists can only be created from the Cognos namespace. This prevents tenant client administrators from managing within their own tenant. We would like the ability to have our own client tenants maintain their administratio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translate Chart Title in Dashboard

Ability to translate a chart title. We want to be able to add it to the things that get translated in the dashboard translation tool
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the Label of a linked data module

If a new data module is created, and an existing data module is added, it comes in as a link. Need the ability to change the labels of the linked-in data module. This would include changing the labels of the linked in data module itself as well as...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to role customization for creating report from package menu

We are missing the menu item called "Create report" when right clicking on a package or selecting the 3 vertical dots menu of a package. This is the only place left that a user can create a report that can't be customized in the new features custo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default output format in reporting

Please use the same mechanics as in Cognos 10 where you had the same output format every time you clicked on the play button. Now you have to chose every report execution which output format you want to see.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration