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Cognos Analytics

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Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Layout improvement for dashboard visualizations

Using relative positioning for the dashboard canvas, it is very difficult to properly lineup the visualizations, they do not snap to bordering visualizations. Lets says you have 3 visualizations and the first 2 have a width of 11% you would expect...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos supporting running on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

Client would like Cognos to support it's containers on GKE
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero/null suppress functionality in Cognos Analytics reports

I am developing a crosstab report in Cognos Analytics that contain a large quantity of zeros in the crosstab intersection. I am trying to apply a zero suppress on the report so that any rows that have all zeros are suppressed from display. I have ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration