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Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Platform support for Docker Container

We are trying to explore the possibility of having to install cognos on a docker container to maximize our hardware resources. Having it on the docker will save the OS running on every VM that was build from physical.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

Add Graded Scale conditional formatting to Reporting Lists and Crosstabs, and Dashboard crosstabs

Excel has Graded Scale conditional formatting... when we are asked to replicate a report that uses Graded Scale formatting, it is not possible in Cognos
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Set User Preference for Automatic Group and Summary Behavior for Lists

Allow users to set their preference for 'Automatic group and summary behavior for lists' as a user preference rather than the current requirement to set as an option for each report.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration