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Cognos Analytics

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Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Legacy Map not sense Cities of Pakistan.

Legacy map in Cognos DashBoard do not sense Cities of Pakistan , as there ic no file in the map directory with the name of [ pakistan.cmf ], as through CMF files Legacy map sense all other Coutries State / Cities like USA, UK
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 10 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

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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