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Cognos Analytics

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Content Administration: Add ability to have date/timestamp on Content Export

Content deployment currently uses a fixed name for the deployment when the maintenance task is created. Add ability to suffix date/time to make unique exports.This would be liken to executing reports to save to file system. Options include to suff...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the possibility for a group (functionnal admin) to access user's my folders

Hello, We would like to have the possibility to give access to user's my folders to people who are not system administrators. As an example, this possibility should be given to functionnal/content administrators in their day to day administration ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: change the left/right scroll arrows to move an entire task, not a teeny bit at a time

while editing an agent, author can scroll tasks via the right and left scroll buttons. The problem it takes about 3 clicks to reveal just one task. Change the horizontal movement to be 1 click moves one whole task.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for zOS Support in Cognos

Cognos does not generate DDL for DB2 zOS which is clearly a supported Database in the specifications and manual yet does not generate DDL for the Content Manager DB for zOS DB2
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to close the browser window on session timeout when Cognos is configured for SSO

Client has a Cognos environment using SSO.After idle time spent on Cognos session, if user clicks on any folders or tabs, the user is presented with a windows pop up to logon. client wishes to not receive such pop up and instead upon session timeo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Clairfy language in Task execution rules > Event Selection

There is an option in Event Selection tab when editing 'Manage the task execution rules'.In the option called "When the following item is True for selected new,ongoing, and ceased events" there is a description: "Insert an item or calculation that...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.

Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.Provide the Admin option to globally set/push report output settings to set as HTML or Excel. This feature would allow to set a single report or all reports. Targeted for Cognos ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos viewer portlets cannot communicate in third party portals

When deploying portlets to a Websphere portal, we cannot set up inter-portlet communication between the viewer portlets. According to Greg McDonald, this is not currently the supported. A workaround was suggested of creating a cognos page with the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to create a datasource that has the same name of Cognos group

Unable to create a datasource name with the same name within a Cognos group or vice versa
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv ReportLayout expression to support coalesce function to handle NULL string concatenation problems

FM/ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv supports COALESCE function to handle NULL string values. This is useful when an output string is concatenation of several items and some of the items could be NULL. In most cases we want to handle NULL string values as...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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