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Cognos Analytics

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Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide/filter out rows in a crosstab without the crosstab summary totals changing

Users need the ability to exclude (filter out) a line item in a cross tab but still have the amount from that line item be included in the summary total. Currently when you exclude the line, the summary total is reduced by the amount of the line.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Addition of trend lines on visualizations in dashboard currently no in dashboard but we have these in report studio old charts.

As the name you kept as Cognos Analytics and always say AI but we dont have a basic option of AI is addition of trendlines for visualizations in dashboard but you can see the attachment we have trendlines/baselines/markers/notes all of them in old...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to download Uploaded files

Currently there is option to refresh uploaded file. However we cant download file which is uploaded already. The best way it can be fixed is to have download option against uploaded file like one available for themes now.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show different report icon change if there is saved output available

One thing which made the old Cognos 10 interface better than the new Cognos Analytics 11 was the ability to look at the state of a report and tell, at a glance, if there was any saved output available. The new CA 11 interface does not provide this...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add lineage feature to find dependent reports for a data module

my business team stakeholders asked to provide an audit of dependent reports on data modules within the production portal the audit was asked for to understand if the reports which are running on schedule can be assigned to a different user or sim...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted