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Cognos Analytics

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Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted
124 VOTE

Option to Run Schedule Once

We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Totals in stacked column / bar chart for every bar or column

Within Dashboard we require very often at stacked column or bar charts, that the total of all stacked cetagories is visible above the bar or column. Currently we can only enable / disable the values for every stacked cel directly at the bar. But n...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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