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Cognos Analytics

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Change Default Settings For Tools

We would like the ability to change or save the default settings in tools. Currently in a tool (ex Report Studio) if we change the settings under Options, the settings are not retained if we close the tool and reopen it again. We would like the ab...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic fixing of schedule parameter selections when there is change of MUN

Report schedule fails when there is a change in MUN in report parameter selection.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable use of package-based filters employing macros in data modules

There are already several RFEs submitted that request the ability to use package query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards. The purpose of this request is to extend those in two ways. 1. We would like to be able to use query subjects contain...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PRESENTATION SERVICE SHOWS AN ERROR WHICH IS NOT ONE FOR PRS-PRO-0511 MESSAGE IN THE LOGS

Since Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 the cognosserver.log file shows an error message which is not one : 2019-02-12T07:00:00.079+0100 ERROR Audit.xts [Thread-401] NA Info Success PresentationService PRS-PRO-0511 A partial reinitialization of the XTS proc...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add OLAP as a data source for Data Module

When I create a data module and add an OLAP data source such as an MSAS cube package or a Powercube, no dimensions or measures are available to add to the data module. This is related to another PMR where the solution was to create a navigation gr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration