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Cognos Analytics

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Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Excel sheet numbering

Cognos Output need to be generate with Tab Numbering like which is working in Cognos older version previous to Cognos 12.0.4. For Example if there are 4 tabs in a output of Cognos Excel tabs names will be like Tab1,Tab2,Tab3,Tab4. Now we are not s...
about 10 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In Cognos 12.0.4 IF2, I need to set a default prompt using the new dynamic prompt feature. However, it's not letting me set the value I need. It was determined that this is not a defect since specifying the type of value (caption or MUN) is not a feature of the default parameter feature yet. I was told to submit a request for it to be added as an enhancement for a future release.

Using a report as a dashboard, using a Dynamic Cube, we need to default the dashboard to display the current month of data.
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Scheduling dataset refresh is unfortunately not possible in our environment since we do not have credentials for username/password. (We are using Smartcards and Kerberos) This means users must refresh datasets manually. This also means we need a w...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

Add compatibility with the latest version of React to Custom Visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. The latest version of React includes server side ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Submitted

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