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Cognos Analytics

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Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Submitted

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

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