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Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Visualizations Vanish when at 0 (or not applicable)

If a "Summary" visualization has a "0" value, can that visualization literally not show up?
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 V12 Change MODIFY RECOVERY To Delete Non Expired Data Sets

In Db2 V12 MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, DELETEDS specifies that cataloged image copy data sets are to be deleted when the corresponding SYSCOPY records are deleted. When we run MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, non-expired disk data sets are ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export a slice to Excel instead of snapshot.

AFAIK the Export to Excel function in PAW creates a snapshot of the Cube Viewer to Excel. Please add the feature to also export a slice to excel. It is possible in Cognos TM1 so I hope it will also be possible in PAW: Cognos TM1: https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: View options are not saved

When you change the options in Viewer these settings are not saved. It is not very practical that hierarchy names are not shown by default.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Attributes selected in set editor to persist to cube viewer

When working with cubes users often refer to attributes for additional information. Typically a user starts by going into the set editor to create their set, select the required elements or possibly choose another set. They then select attributes ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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