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Cognos Analytics

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Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAx - It should work on MacOS as well

Given the current scenario PAx should be compatible be IOS as well as more and more people are using Maacbook now a days.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics - Dashboard Global parameter does not work

Cognos Analytics does not have feature to apply the global parameters (value prompts, check box etc). Its difficult to use the dashboard in many use case
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to modify a schedule without changing credentials

In Cognos 10.2.1 and earlier versions, we were able to update a schedule without changing the credentials. We would like this functionality restored in Cognos Analytics.
over 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

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Report View option for Delivery in Scheduling

When Scheduling the report in Cognos Analytics,users are provided with the option to Save the report, but not as report view. With Security, the users cannot save the report in Team Content. This is causing issues when scheduling the report. Case ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration