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Cognos Analytics

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Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

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

Add radial and lasso map selection controls to map visualization in Cognos Analytics dashboards.

We have a business requirement for selecting radial and custom geographic areas to quickly identify clients at risk during extreme weather events, disease outbreak, flooding, fires, or other localized emergency.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Option to show % and number on the charts

HR users would like to use this functionality to present the reports to Upper management to make the right decisions. Right now, the charts either show % or number. There is no option to show both.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace.

Cognos Analytics need an connection to Azure Synapse Data warehouse with Cognos namespace. And this namespace is created with Open ID Connect.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support Microsoft Edge Chromium for Cognos Analytics

Our Company has rolled out Edge Chromium has the default browser but this browser is not yet supported. Although it worked fine for v11.1.4, it gives issues in v11.1.7 when creating a new report or editing an existing report (cannot reasd property...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release