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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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'Close and Run the report' in Drill-through definitions or re-run first and then switch to an open report

There's a slight delay in data being re-loaded when a new set of parameters are passed to an already opened drill-through report. When a user goes back to a parent report and then re-drills with new set of parameters they will see prior output of ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change the limit by 10 000 rows when reading a data source in a Notebook

There is a limit by 10 000 rows when reading a data source in a Notebook. To read the data we use: CADataConnector.read_data(path=””) But we only get a maximum of 10 000 rows. Is there any way to change this limit? There is a parameter called nrow...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Resizable windows Drill-through Definition in Report Studio

As a report developer I often need to open existing drill-through definitions, explore and edit parameter mapping. When report contains more than 9 parameters (the most of my enterprise customer reports), I have to scroll down / up for display all...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Email Subject API

We are working in a project with the IBM software services to trigger running the report and send the report output by email using the attached HTTP POST method. However, the email subject is always the same as stored in the "deliveryOptions" bina...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Wrokspace Advanced Tool Drill Through

When authoring in Cognos Workspace or Cognos Workspace Advanced a Context Filter is not passed to a target drill through report SymptomMissing expected drill through parameter CauseThis functionality is not supported in this release. It has been l...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered