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Cognos Analytics

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    Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

    We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
    about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

    Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

    Layout Component References - for everything!

    LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

    Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

    When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

    Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

    An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
    about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

    When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

    Add API to trigger schedules

    For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

    Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

    End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

    Case of letters in objects paths

    There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

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