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Cognos Analytics

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ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Url to run reprots from Sharepoint in the cloud enhancemetn

When a report is published the SharePoint cloud and passing a userid and pw with the parameters does not work in the cloud. This works on prem but not in the cloud. See case TS002005281 and TS003114744. The reports run sometime and when they do, i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to deactivate the export functionalities within PowerPlay Studio for specific User

We want to disable the exporting functionality for a specific user or group in cognos analytics (PowerPlay Studio).
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit Scope of Explorations

Explorations often return large numbers of data columns (attributes and measures) that are not relevant to an exploration. The user is inundated with large numbers of data items making it difficult for the Exploration logic to produce desirable re...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance fault handling of Cognos BI in case of missing services

If distributed Cognos env or just single install.Enhance the fault handling if one or more service are (temporarily) missing/down in the way to buffer/queue the request instead of many failed requests causing many failed report execution
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to dynamically add missing dates to a report that don't exist in the database

When creating reports off a database that does not have a complete date dimension (meaning missing dates in the database). Cognos should be able to fill in the missing dates dynamically. For example:
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map drill-thru support in Workspace for listening widget prompts

We would like to use the Map drill-thru functionality to act as a master prompt for widgets listening in a multi-widget Workspace , whereby the other Workspace widgets use the pass-thru map variable as the Prompt value.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to export the result of LCM into text file

Client requires to have the ability export Name, Status, DQM enabled, Progress on LCM into text file.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand LDAP Configuration in Cognos Configuration

Please expand the capabilities of the LDAP Configuration in Cognos Configuration to include all the available options for the latest LDAP Standards. Or simply support the memberOf attribute as described here: (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration