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Cognos Analytics

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Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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 ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

re-aasign new package to report from properties

Re-point a report to an alternative package from the properties dialogue
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Global change option for the Search and Select prompt

The Deltek client, FHI360, is asking for the following enhancement, "We ask for a global change option in the Select and Search prompt where the default selection should be, “Contains any of these keywords” instead of “Starts with any of the...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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