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Cognos Analytics

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Adding images to reports and dashboards

Currently only administrators can upload images.Anyone making a report should be able to upload images . Just like all the other BI tools out there
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consistent naming throughout Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics changed to "Team Content" from "Public Folders" and "My Folders" to "My Content", but in some places where the legacy interface is integrated with the new interface, references to "My Folders" still exist. It would be consistent t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deny copy from folders without write permissions

In the Cognos Analytics interface; we would like to have the ability to deny or remove copy from folders that users do not have write access to. Currently there is no way of preventing users with read and traverse from copying reports and saving t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard, on crosstab viz add sort by summarized values

In Dashboards add sort function to the summary column field on a cross tab visualization type
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

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