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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Is a defect

NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration