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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to return the status of the report/job execution run via trigger.bat

Client would like to have the ability in trigger.bat script to execute a report/job via trigger and return the status of the execution of the the report/job so that such implementation can be used to automate the report/job runs using automated to...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

OIDC Support - use access token for claims

Currently Cognos passes claims in id token along with user information. implementation at many customer applications is using access token for claims. request to provide this option.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Mapping Visualization Extra Zip Codes

Current map visualtion for Cognos Analytics is missing or else is unable to resolve some zip codes that need to be in place for a critical security dashboard. Because the current map provider has not included some zip codes, a dashboard mapping CO...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Geographical data, update of counties in Norway.

1.st January 2020 there was a reorganisation from 18 to 11 counties in Norway. See attachement for example. Maps in CA must reflect this.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Create a variable that limits available query service memory per user

Customers with large dynamic cubes and a fully self-serving reporting approach start to face issues of rampant DQM usage that causes Overloaded scenarios even on Enterprise Class Servers with 1 TB of Memory
about 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration