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Cognos Analytics

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Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic cubes with calculated measures in dashboard

I would like to be able to use calculated measures from a dynamic cube in dashboarding 11.x.x.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Email text template

Often reports are sent from Cognos via email to the receipients. As the reports owner, we take care in adding a relevant text to the email, such as our company's official logo, address, etc. Currently, whenever a change to the standard email tex...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change color of Summary label

When I create a summary visualisation in a dashboard (v 11.2.4), there is no way to change the color, font and style of the label (you can only hide it and change the text alignment). One should be able to style the label the same way as the title.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.7 "Link to Package" functionality is not Available

Product : Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 Issue : Users are facing difficulties to re link their package in Cognos 11.0.7 reports. Description : Users used to change the package (Re link) for their report by just clicking the report properties and then by...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Please add the schedule owner back to the interface

In Cognos Analytics, in the entry properties, we can see the entry owner, but in the Schedule details we cannot identify the owner of the schedule, which could be someone entirely different than the entry owner. Please add the schedule owner back ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration