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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL query subject not getting updated anyhow.

We are not able to update the query items of the query subject in cognos report studio using the sql .If you are using sql then you have to create a new query subject to get the data items available in the query .if you tried to use the existing q...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Labels and (Surrogate) keys in Data Modules

In Framework Manager it is currently possible to split Labels and Keys. Meaning, an end user will see the label of a field (eg. The Netherlands) and in the backend, Cognos will filter on the attached key (eg. 12345). The advantage of this is that,...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Drill down to any path(dimension) feature

User can create a report in "Cognos Report Studio" and have the ability to enable the drill down features. But the drill down options are based on the pre-defined hierarchies those created in the Dynamic Cubes or any framework deployed packages. A...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ability to programatically "apply" an SSL/MA configuration

We are using an SSL/Mutual Authentication configuration, and have written a utility that helps automate the conversion of a non-SSL/MA configuration to an SSL/MA one. For a single server install, everything works great. For a 3-tier install, we ar...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Re-orientation of row selection in grid Dashboar

We have a dashboard with cross filters and table grid with rows. Whenever we select some row in table grid, its get highlighted. When we select some other cross-filter which can accommodate that particular row ( cross-filter can drive this grid ),...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration