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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular di...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress “your report is running' message when user select any Cascading Prompts on prompt page

Currently at NYC DSS agency, Management Console Cognos/ Netezza reporting system having 100 reports developed by IBM and maintained by DSS ITS. As per user requirement, we would like IBM Cognos software to suppress ‘your report is running' messa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easiest border info reading in properties border popup (direct instead of mouseover) - Report Studio

I have been developping on report studio for months and I find it very difficult to create/ modify borders.One of the biggest problem is that it is difficult to know which border you are modifying.Would it be possible to have an enhancement on thi...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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Add keyboard shortcuts in the product

Merged
Would be great if you implement keyboard shortcuts in your product as BI market competitors to speed up the utilization for users and also developers in reporting/dashboarding. Would be real revolution.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Able to set Autocomplete attribute off on main login page.

Our Penetration testers found that the autocomplete attribute was not set for the password field on the main login page. After I opened up a support ticket IBM stated: Unfortunately, development won't accept missing 'autocomplete=off' as a defect....
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Restrict Copy on Package but Allow for Development Using Dev Tool

We would like the ability to restrict copying on packages while still allowing users to develop reports against that package. We have worked with IBM Technical Support and tried many options (refer to: 33942,227,000) but not one of the options rec...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not store storeIDs for agents.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, We are working on a big datawarehouse project with many teams. For reporting we use Cognos Analytics. Our process to make changes to a report is to copy it to a development folder, make the changes and move the new repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration