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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Ability to hide fields in table when enriching a package

We don't always hide the S_Key's from our Fact and Dimension tables, because it helps with troubleshooting problems. So when we enrich a framework manager package there is now way to exclude them from being enrich. So when you open a exploration, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Data Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube Measures and sql

Add the ability per cube via an advanced setting to have the mdx query engine send one sql to the databsse for all measures on the report at the same time rather and one sql for each measure. The measure threshold setting does not satisfy this whe...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Bulk replace option

Problem: After Selecting Tables from a DB. You want to format and rename some of the labels. Most DB use a _ of other prefixes. For now there is no other GUI option to select multiple items and rename or search and replace texst items like _ or ot...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration