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Search results: Cognos Analytics

On/Off toggle for extensions

I would like to be able to toggle on/off various extensions. If I'm troubleshooting and need to turn off extension for a bit, then I have to download and delete, and then upload again to turn on. It would be nice to simply have a on/off toggle.
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enhancements to the Share Report Dialogue window - enhancing kiosk / auto refresh mode

Within 12.1.3 the report share window now includes an option to auto-refresh. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=components-auto-refresh-reports This creates a URL that runs a report is kiosk mode. To support this new kiosk ...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Request to Reconsider HTTPS Change Due to Business Impact

We are writing to raise an important concern regarding the recent transition to HTTPS and its impact on our organization, STC. While we fully understand and support the importance of security, compliance, and modern security standards, the recent ...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Proactive AI-Powered Dashboard Monitoring and Intelligent Business Risk Detection for IBM Cognos Analytics

I propose adding Proactive AI-Powered Dashboard Monitoring and Intelligent Business Risk Detection for Cognos Analytics to make enterprise dashboards more proactive and continuously focused on emerging business risks, significant KPI changes, and ...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Conditional Delivery and Notification for Scheduled Reports Based on Data Availability

Problem Cognos Analytics scheduled report delivery does not provide a standard condition based on whether the report returns data. This would be useful for two common scenarios: Expected data is missing: A regular business report normally contains...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Change aggregated output option for CSV export

Consider a data module containing transaction records with the following columns: Store, Product, Sales Date, and Quantity Sold. The user wants to create a Table visual in a dashboard that contains only two columns - Product and and aggregated Tot...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Enable Inline Expand/Collapse [+]/[-] for Rows AND Columns in Dashboard Crosstabs (Relational Sources)

Current Limitation:Currently, in Cognos Analytics Dashboards (release 12.1.x), the Crosstab visualization lacks native inline Expand/Collapse functionality (the [+] and [-] icons) when querying purely relational data sources (e.g., a standard Star...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Allow Conditional Formatting (Color) on Summary/Total cells in Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Current Limitation: In Cognos Analytics Dashboards (including the current 12.1.3 release), the "Conditional color" formatting feature for Crosstab visualizations applies exclusively to detailed data cells. The system completely ignores the Summary...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

KPI Visualization for Current Period and Change Value and Percentage - Cognos Analytics Dashboard

KPI Visualization for Current Period and Change Value and Percentage - Cognos Analytics Dashboard. Existing KPI chart:Current Period/Base valuePrior Period/Target value Comparison %/Distance % Suggested additional KPI chart: Current Period/Base va...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Flexibility on label location on individual item label format

Label location: Inside, Outside, Outside dense, Call out Item label format: Item name, Value, Percentage In the current settings, item label format has to go always together (e.g. item name and value and percentage). It always get congested inside...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted