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Cognos Analytics

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Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Relative path for images used in dashboards and story's like in reports

After export/import from onprem to cloud all images remain intact in reports because we use relative paths. Because we could not use relative paths in story's and in dashboards, this became a problem for us now. We had to do a search on an export ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improvement of Table visualization in Cognos Dashboard

I would like to be able to change the column size of the columns in table in Cognos Dashboard. Just add the same resize handle as we have in a crosstab
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release