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Cognos Analytics

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ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opti...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart Y-Axis scaling

Current behavior of the legacy PGSDK charting engine renders an empty chart using 0 to 500 for percentage format by default. We would like to have the ability to set this to 0 - 100.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay in logging of CM-REQ-2xxx messages in cogserver.log file

The cogserver.log file take long time to get updated with CM-REQ-2299 and CM-REQ-2300 messages, when export/import operations are performed through trigger.sh utility
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule reports during Certain Days of Month

We were looking for a ability to schedule the reports within a range of a month, like 1st to 10th of each month. Currently in Scheduling options we have either to run 1st day or 2nd day of the month, but could not specify range.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hiding the Data Server type in Cognos 11

Customizing the Data Server Type list from Data Server List in Portal . I would like to delete/Deactivate the Data Server list from manage menu which are not required
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release