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Cognos Analytics

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roleValue support for multi-level sets

Many OLAP technologies offer the ability to have a member property, with the same name, spanning multiple levels. At the moment there is no good way of getting that common attribute into a report when building a mulit-level set. I may have a set e...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to the cookie configuration for setting the SAMESITE parameter

Web browsers are starting to assume a default setting SAMESITE=lax for cookies they receive. This default setting causes issues when a Cognos report is embedded in a site with a different domain setting. We need to be able to configure this option...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add to the display when you mouse over a data point on a Line Graph on a Dashboard the number of occurrences of the metric that were used to get the summarized value.

We have a Line Graph on a Cognos Analytics Dashboard. The x-axis are Dates We have a metric that falls in one of 3 categories. In the Dashboard UI, I created 4 variables to hold the numbers for each category and 1 for all numbers for all categorie...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to hide option to run job in all at once mode

Hello, to avoid overloading the system especially by one user, we need to have option to disable/hide option to run jobs as all at once. This option is too dangerous as one user can create large jobs and take all the application resources.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Legend Object Labels (custom text, option to hide summarization method)

In dashboard, when multiple facts are pulled into a visual, the legends labels have the summarization method concatenated on the end [measure 1 (sum), measure 2 (calculated)]. The summarization method should be optional to show. In addition, all l...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release