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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos URls have high-bit charcters

PMR 30376,227,000: Cognos 10.2.2 Bi Server - Cognos admin urls have high-bit characters We use Microsoft Threat management gateway (TMG) firewall/reverse proxy to allow access for external url, however it blocks any urls which may have high bit ch...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign value to a Parameter from a Report Studio Query

In a Report Studio, have the ability to assign a value to a parameter, where the value is calculated in a query.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Workspace pass parameter in URL

Include the ability to pass a parameter into a Workspace URL to be used by applicable reporting objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

request to pass report xml through form parameter to run report with modified xml

Hi, we are trying to build a form page/url with parameters to run cognos analytics report (cognos 11 report with Interactivity set to Yes) like the way we do in cognos 10. in Cognos 10, we used to post the following parameters to run the report si...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enh: Ability to Maintain Different Versions of Bursted Active Report in Mobile App

The Cognos Mobile app looks at the StoreID metadata of Active Reports that are created in BI 10.2 and later instead of the file name. Multiple versions of the same report are bursted to the file system and then emailed to the iPad or Android user....
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Definable and Reusable subsets (public + private) in BI Reports

Today there is the possibility to define public subsets in BI Reports (Shared sets in 10.2.1) but we would like a more flexible functionality: private as well as public subsets //// BI subsets as well as subsets based on package elements (dimensio...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration