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Cognos Analytics

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Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Event Studio:Option to change font or font size in the Event Studio email body

The font size of the text for Email tasks in Event studio is small. Please provide button on toolbar to increase or decrease the size, also add button to change the Font.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

More detail information at the different steps of a job

A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

add server group assignment to Cube Stop and Start job tasks

We currently have 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups. A cube will reside in a cluster of dispatchers assigned to a server group. We need a way to restart cubes without having users queries run against a cube that is starting
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration