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Cognos Analytics

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Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Data Module created from Data Server with multiple alike schema should be able to use any

it should be possible to use any schema that are alike depending on the connection. For exemple if my developpement schema is called DEV and my production schema is called PROD, I am not able to use a datamodule made with DEV for production. Sam...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A R...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release