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Cognos Analytics

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Add Action Menu (more button) to Recent section under the Hamburger Menu

In 11.2.2, when I go to recent in the hamburger menu, I can only remove from recent. I used to be able to share, copy, move, etc. I would like to be able to do these things again.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

OLAP Modelling for Data Modules (Dimensions / Hierarchies / Levels) like Framewormanager

Like in Frameworkmanager we need to define Dimensions, Hierary, Levels in Datamodules. This is because we need to build complex reports, which we can build very fast, with less complexity with Cubes. Dynamic Cubes and Transformer Cubes. We want to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Recent Reports on Content Page

In Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 the content homepage (?perspective=content) has some tabbed folder by default: My content, Team content, Custom folder and My portal pages. So this is the perfect starting point for our consumers. It would be very helpfu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Google charts alignment Dashboarding vs. Report Authoring

As a business requirement we need histogram charts in CA 11.1.7 Since this functionality is not available in CA 11.1.7s onboard viz library we need to implement google histogram chart as described in this IBM doc: https://community.ibm.com/acceler...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration