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Cognos Analytics

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107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

To and CC fields dynamic when bursting.

When bursting a report, need the ability to change the To and CC fields based on columns in report.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
115 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

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