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Cognos Analytics

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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

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.
over 9 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View filter selection values in Workspace Advanced Report

When making a report using Cognos Workspace Advanced the paramvalues from the selection made on the prompt page are not displayed as they were in query studio. When a user creates a filter that is prompted a report expression that shows the select...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

deployment of one single dynamic cube in a multi project environment without extra environment

Deploy one single dynamic cube from one environment to another using a deployment archive without exporting all data sources and connections. example: export one cube in QS and import it to QS
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error message. please refer case number for more details. TS001613965
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration