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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Ability to export/import color palettes among multiple environments with no need to export the entire Content Store

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

auto summary's default value cannot be set as 'false' when using List object for Cognos report

I tried this on version 11.2.4 with the document for 11.0.12, but it didnt work. (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-auto-group-and-summarize-false-default-report-lists) Modifying "AutoListGroupSummaryBehavior" values to "false" in "Default...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

To and CC fields dynamic when bursting.

When bursting a report, need the ability to change the To and CC fields based on columns in report.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted