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Cognos Analytics

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Add start/completion times to My Activities (Past Activities)

Now that the My Activities option has been added back to Cognos Analytics, some additional options would make the tool a little more useful. When viewing My Activities and looking at Past Activities, can the ability to view the start/completion of...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Add support for clauses of aggregate functions in DQM

In 10.2.1 FP3 DQM added the support for aggregate functions (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660309. Specially the listagg function is of concern. The listagg function on DB2 has a specific within group clause, that is used for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Bar Chart - allow the user to toggle Measure values between VALUE and Percentage of Color

Assume you have a Dashboard widget which shows a breakdown by Gender. If the requirement is to show values and also Values as a % - we have to create two separate Widgets. The user does have the option to change VISUALIZATION... but it would welc...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Fire trigger when dataset is updated

Would give the posibility to schedule reports based on datamodules with datasets, like we do on cubes, and burst when data is updated.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release