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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Container for New Cognos Mobile App

Does the development team for Cognos Analytics for Mobile have anything on the app’s roadmap to add support for Intune app protection policies? According to the developer guidance on github, it would require the mobile app developer to make use of...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Planned for future release

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Chart Axis Range not honored

System: IBM Cognos 11.0.x or 10.2.xActor: Report developerDescription: Report developers want to produce charts that show sufficient detail for the smaller values in a report without regard for known anomalies that lie outside some reasonable rang...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Full Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Right now we are using Cognos Analytics on a SLES 12 SP5 OS. SLES 12 has EOS in 2024 and we need to migrate to SLES 15 (SP4 or newer). Right now the "Cognos Analytics Server" and the "Cognos Software Development Kit" are not supported on SLES 1...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

User should be able to add customized tiles on the welcome page

CFIA has been using Cognos since 2008 and the users start liking Congos 11.1.x especially Cognos 11.1.4. The welcome page is modern and seems easily to be able to customized. But in fact the users won't be able to add the tiles that they need. If ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration