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Cognos Analytics

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Change the default setting when sending mails

With the options for the delivery of the reports (after "Execution in the background") set as default that the report is sent as an attachment by email and is not saved.I click on "Delivery" option (new GUI). The following should then be activated...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumers, have the Icon to Delete a Report in Team Content, even if they don't have permissions do to so.

Even when removing execute permissions form a consumer to run a report, the ellipses drop down shows Delete icon in Team Content. If they click on it, it says they don't have permission, they should not see the option.
over 8 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.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
about 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 ...
about 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...
about 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Displaying Time Zone in the Report Scheduler Window

Case ID : TS000068061The timings in the Cognos schedule is default to server time zone. It is getting difficult for the user to schedule timings when there are from different time zone. We are looking for an option where we can set the scheduler w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration