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Cognos Analytics

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Aggregate aware joins in FM

Hi for many years I have been hoping for a feature in framework manager to allow 'aggregate aware' joins in the model. This feature is in SAP IDT tool and let's you choose to substitute the join toto fact table based on aggregate level, e.g regula...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fully implement Cognos person namespace

Hi, in Cognos 11 the fast install includes an ldap and the admin gui works with this namespace to allow creating users etc. Please fully implement this as it's own install option and improve support for tenant features. Being able to manage users ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schema's name should not be mandatory in Cube Designer just like in Framework Manager

We have different database schema's name in each environment such as DEV_Cognos, UAT_Cognos and PROD1_Cognos and Prod2_Cognos. In the cube designer, we have to define the schema's name otherwise an error will be returned. Therefore promoting from ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard page prompt: Being able to setup Direction of the items such as across and down

Dashboard page prompts, user should be able to setup the Direction of the items such as across and down Instead of having a list that shows only a few items than need to scroll down, would prefer to have a choice to have at least a few across. Wou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring Case TS001884812 A joined query with a filter is not selectable item in report Authoring. On the joined query there is a filter, if we not use the joined query, the filter is no...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

last non empty function in measure

In Transformer we need a last non empty function for the measures (like in SSAS). Now you can set the last period but in a date dimensión always show the last period. For example in this year it shows dic/2019 but i want to show only with data (fe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Thoughs fail when migrating to new environment

When migrating a Dashboard or Report from a Development environment to a Client Environment through Cognos Administration Content import/export, the drill through definitions break and must be recreated. Could the drill through be relative or have...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Cognos 11.x is supported IBM Workload Scheduler (TWS) 9.4

We are planning integrate Cognos 11.x to IBM Workload Scheduler 9.4 to schedule the reports after ETL lobs completes .It seems to be Tivoli Workload Scheduler is not supported to Cognos 11.x . It would be nice if the feature enable. TWS supporting...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add another permission set which encompasses Execute/Traverse only

Pre-defined permissions sets in the list are not customizable in Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 (version 11 onward). Need a new one which provides Execute and Traverse only. Please see the ticket: TS001873295 for details.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos 11 - Report name not displayed in classic view while scheduling report

Hi, I am not able to see the report title while scheduling a report using classic view. Cognos version 11.0.12. In Cognos 10 the report title used to get displayed. Attached screenshot. Thanks,Ganesh
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration