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per-tenant filename settings in MT Cognos

We have some customers who wish to set their report name format to include the date. Other customers prefer to use the same report name so that older versions are overwritten. We used to be able to allow per-customer name formats when we used dedi...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for Multiple SQL Like Pattern matches in Report studio

Hi Team, While migrating to Cognos 12. * Query studio ois no longer supported and users have to migrate to Report studio . Several users have expressed concerns regarding the following scenario: they were able to add multiple SQL patterns in Query...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration
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Output CSV file, change delimiter at report level

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Currently RSVP.CSV.DELIMITER allows a tab (default) or comma selection when a report is output as a CSV file type. This is a global selection and causes issues when third party applications require files to be sent, but each one potentially differ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Delivered

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Add an email notification when the extracts are uploaded to S3

Currently, the users are not getting notified when the extracts are completed and uploaed to S3. Please add an email notification feature when the extract file is successfully uploaded on to the configured S3 Bucket/Path.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration
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When running a report to CSV allow the delimiter to be selected at run time

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The setting for CSV delimiter is global. In a very old version of Cognos (7) you could select the delimiter when running the report. Apparently this can be set at the dispatcher level, but an extra dispatcher seems a lot of overhead just to change...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Delivered