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Cognos Analytics

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Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide chart axes in Dashboarding

Need an additional property available on charts within Dashboarding to hide chart axes. Charts already have many properties available on the x and y axis respectively but there is no option to hide the axis line entirely like there is in reporting.
almost 4 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

If the password expires, the user can register a new password.

When the password expires, the customer will not be able to log in and change the password.If the customer can move to the password change screen even in this state, the customer can register a new password.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XAML Support for Cognos Analytics

We need to authenticate internal and external users and our company prefer to use XAML for this. Can we add this to Cognos Analytics as a supported solution.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Is it possible to update Cognos 11 to report a 'locked out' account?

Our client would like to be able to run a report or get an alert whenever a user gets locked out of their Cognos account.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include a Link to Report when running Interactively

When running a report interactively and user selects Select Delivery Method/Email Report, there is no option to Include a Link - only to Attach the report
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

roleValue support for multi-level sets

Many OLAP technologies offer the ability to have a member property, with the same name, spanning multiple levels. At the moment there is no good way of getting that common attribute into a report when building a mulit-level set. I may have a set e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to the cookie configuration for setting the SAMESITE parameter

Web browsers are starting to assume a default setting SAMESITE=lax for cookies they receive. This default setting causes issues when a Cognos report is embedded in a site with a different domain setting. We need to be able to configure this option...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration