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Cognos Analytics

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Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

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

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

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

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Postgres Support for Cognos Analytics Content Store

Postgres is supported by Cognos Analytics as a data source but is not supported as a content store database. From a deployment and cost perspective it would make sense to support Postgres for both so that it simplifies the process. Currently, we...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy or export from dashboards

Requesting additional features for dashboards. Users are not able to export data or copy data from the dashboard page.
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
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists