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Cognos Analytics

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More Defined Error Messages

Our team is using CA to connect to TM1 packages, and often times we run into connection issues. It will always give us the same message "DIMM-ERR-1007", but the root cause could be completely different each time.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics

OK button not visible without changing the zoom in the Filter box in Cognos Analytics, have to change zoom for it to appear when using Cognos Analytics to create a report.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

need to fix security breaks in Apache web server

Our internal security scan has found couple of Breaks related to configuration in Apache web server used for CA v11.1.1. Our question is, do we have plan to fix them in future releases or we will need to submit enhancement request in order to get ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Different Attributes in between Hierarchy levels in DQM Model

When pulling different Attributes in between the Hierarchal levels DQM Model throws error. But, when we use this with CQM it works perfectly fine.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Order of chart legend colours does not match the chart body

In Cognos 10.2.1 GA when producing a 'Stacked Bar Chart' using the GO Sales (Query) package if you render the report in either HTML or PDF format the order of the colours displayed in the legend is the exact reverse of the colour order seen in the...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Min & Max Values for Axis on Visualizations Disappeared for Active Reports in Cognos 11.1

Since migrating to Congos 11.1, we are noticing that the ability to set minimum and maximum values for an axis on visualizations is no longer an option after migrating to Cognos 11.1. Would like to see this option available again.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

LifeCycle Manager gives 'No Prompts Required' message but the Cognos Report has a Prompt page.

Report has a prompt page. LifeCycle Manager does not read the prompts though in the application for some reason. The work around is that we need to compare the report outputs manually instead of setting them as a Project in LCM. Report detail...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Drill Thoughs fail when migrating to new environment

When migrating a Dashboard or Report from a Development environment to a Client Environment through Cognos Administration Content import/export, the drill through definitions break and must be recreated. Could the drill through be relative or have...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect