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Cognos Analytics

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Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable use of sub-select in datamodule security filters

At this moment, version 12.0.3, it is not possible to use a sub-select in a security filter. We get syntax errors when we try to use a sub-select, but the syntax proves to be correct when used in native SQL. We need sub-selects to select from a se...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Planned for future release

Enhancement Request: Return Empty Result Set for Restricted Parameters in Cognos Reports with Planning Analytics Cube

Background In Cognos Analytics, reports using Planning Analytics (TM1) cubes as a data source fail with an error message when users query parameters they lack access to due to element-level security in the cube. This disrupts the user experience a...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support grant_type "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in JWT auth

We are trying to connect from cognos on-prem to Trino database using JWT authentication via External Namespace. But connection fails because cognos does not support the grant type " grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in ADFS O...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted
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Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Conditionally Rendered Images on Dashboard

The ability to have conditionally rendered images would add tremendous value to dashboards with KPIs, to give a scorecard look and feel. E.G. Red light appears based on target not being met, Green light appears based on target being exceeded. I re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted