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Cognos Analytics

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Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a spe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future 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

View Job Step Status As In Cognos 10

This is the same issue as: https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CA-I-2931 In Cognos 10.2, users had an option to "View the details ... after closing this dialog" when running objects (i.e. reports, views, jobs) in the background. This was es...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Need to calculation a summary value for calculated ratios based on calculations and not by average in Dashboard

If we create any ratio calculations in the dashboard by default the resulting value is summed up, which is wrong. Also, if we change the summary property to average then it is giving a value which is nearly right but we are not getting the exact v...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report schedule saved parameters in Report Properties

Users are requesting to be able to manually run a schedule. This can be done in Cognos Admin console, but they don't have access to this, and there's no way to grant them access to just the schedules in Cognos Admin console for only their groups s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dynamic cubes heap when loading in-memory aggregates

Loading the in-memory aggregates consumes massive amounts of heap. In previous versions of Cognos when all in-memory aggregates was loaded from the source the heap consumption was far less. We have a setup with a few cubs starting at the same time...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add radial and lasso map selection controls to map visualization in Cognos Analytics dashboards.

We have a business requirement for selecting radial and custom geographic areas to quickly identify clients at risk during extreme weather events, disease outbreak, flooding, fires, or other localized emergency.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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

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

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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