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Cognos Analytics

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Get the Cognos Analytics French Help go directly to IBM french help page

When a user clicks help ("Aide") From a French Cognos Analytics UI he should be directed to a French IBM help web page. This was the case within previous versions (e.g. Cognos 10.2.1, 8 & CRN1.1 MR4)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block the possibility of "double-logging"

Add the possibility to either block the possibility of "double-logging" - at the risk of hindering the work of administrators who often log on from different terminals/browsers simultaneously, unless the blockage can be made selective - or/and to ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep schedule when copying reports

Customer moves a report, report view or event and the schedule stays with the object. If one copies a said item the schedule gets removed which is understandable or it would run twice. However, if you copy and want to keep the copy you have to cre...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Transformer published group cube default location

When cogtr.exe is used how to set default location for publishing the cube groups. For normal cubes we can determine default folder location to publish the built cubes. But for cube groups we cant determine the default location for saving/publishi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the error mail only to report owner incase of SMTP error in report schedule [CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410]

Problem: - The error mail is sent to all recipients added in schedule When there a report schedule failed due to SMTP error (CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410). Example: - I have scheduled an analysis studio report on daily basis at 9:00 AM. So daily I w...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration