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Cognos Analytics

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Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

deployment of one single dynamic cube in a multi project environment without extra environment

Deploy one single dynamic cube from one environment to another using a deployment archive without exporting all data sources and connections. example: export one cube in QS and import it to QS
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

hide chart axes in Dashboarding

Need an additional property available on charts within Dashboarding to hide chart axes. Charts already have many properties available on the x and y axis respectively but there is no option to hide the axis line entirely like there is in reporting.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

If the password expires, the user can register a new password.

When the password expires, the customer will not be able to log in and change the password.If the customer can move to the password change screen even in this state, the customer can register a new password.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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