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Cognos Analytics

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Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dataset dbstorage sql server

Currently datasets can be stored as parquet-files or as db2dataset-storage. We have Microsoft sql server for CM-db and Audit-db. We would like to have the possibility to also stor datasets on MS sql server. This would simplify our it-landscape.
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Possibility to test cognos configuration via script instead of test-buttons in cognos configuration

We do not have logon access to cognos production servers. We would like to start test-cognos configuration via script instead of opening cognos configuration gui and click test-buttons.
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Move functionality delivered via extensions into Cognos Analytics.

Extensions are good to get new functionality into the tool quickly. But some functionality delivered via extensions should rather be implemented directly into cognos analytics. e.g. the extension widgetexport which makes it possible to export widg...
about 19 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

Reporting on Bounced Emails

I would like to be able to receive a notification from Cognos when an emailed report from Cognos Cloud cannot be delivered due to the recipient email address not existing. I'm thinking of situations where an email address was entered incorrectly, ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted
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More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

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