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Cognos Analytics

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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

Increased number of clickable regions on visualisations

In the stacked column visualisation, in PROPERTIES >INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOUR>CLICKABLE REGIONS there are only 2 options. Visualisation as a whole and Visualisation Intersections. For our dashboard we need the X AXIS lables also in the clickable...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Case TS001148199- Enhancement to treat a MUN memeber appearing at different levels as same member.

CASE # TS001148199 - Parent level value does not match with summarized value of children in crosstab
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clustered Bar Chart Doesn't Include Annotations

In the Reporting development environment in the 11.0.10-13 environments, the "new" Clustered Bar chart visualization does not include the Annotations property. We would like to display the value of the bars being displayed. This functionality is i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drill through not working in saved active reports

In Cognos 11.0.11, when you run an active report in the background and save the reportversion, the drill through links in the report do not work. They only work when the active report is run interactively. This is related to PMR ID 24579227000.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encript passwords in Configuration export

Password(hashed) in Cognos configuration is visible in Cognos configuration export. Need to create option to hide/encrypt passwords entered in Cognos configuration when exporting configuration to a file
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration