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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Legend Object Labels (custom text, option to hide summarization method)

In dashboard, when multiple facts are pulled into a visual, the legends labels have the summarization method concatenated on the end [measure 1 (sum), measure 2 (calculated)]. The summarization method should be optional to show. In addition, all l...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easier search of Container id based on user name in Jupyter server

We are currently using CA 11.1.5 with Jupyter notebook configured. Cognos is installed in Windows and Jupyter is installed in Linux. At present we have very few users using Jupyter notebook and if any user receive any error in notebook we can easi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting Slider Range

In the Dashboard module, a conditional formatting range can be set on a calculated column in a Table visualization. For example, say I create a categorical color palette for conditional formatting on a % range in a table. The range of the conditio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered