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Cognos Analytics

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Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support but ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose the Change of Field Properties like (Sort,Usage) for FM Package as Source for Cognos Analytics Dashboard

We are Currently Using IBM Cognos Analytics 11-R10 in our environment, For Dashboard Development we are using FM-DQM Package as source and we are facing issue in changing the query item properties for example : changing the sort options, aggregate...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Cognos Treeprompt

The existing Tree-Prompt ist not sufficient for complex selections, especially in large dimensions.An enhancement would be preciated.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration