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Cognos Analytics

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Comprehensive Auditing #mea #emea

Give more thorough Auditing Capabilities instead of using Audit Extension or third part tool like Motio or BSP Software.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration