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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support lines in the visualization map in Cognos

Tableau has the functionality to easily upload a shape file in mapbox and visualise on a map the rivers,.... When selecting in a table a certain river, the river on the map in mapbox is highlighted. The opposite is also possible, when selecting a ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Incorporate names for data tables in PowerPlay Studio where information in a cell requires a row or column header to adequately describe the cell’s contents.

Why is it Useful? PowerPlay Studio Accessibility enhancement: Currently, there are no header and cell association for data tables created in the workspace area of PowerPlay Studio. For screen reader technology users, the reading order of a data ta...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Audit tables - Customer would like to see report names when running a report in Workspace Advance and Report Studio Instead

When customer opens a report that has been previously saved in Workspace Advanced and Report Studio and runs report interactively the report is audited as adHocReport
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization to fix the header size in Cognos dashboard or to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is there. Rows are getting resized automatically to fit in the defined box. But If there is no data available then header automatically resized to the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exploration support for calculations in Starting Points

Currently, Explore cannot support calculations in Starting Points. This would be very useful as a lot of the benefit from Data Modules comes from the ability to easily merge data sources together and create calculations from the resulting table. I...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Use geospatial functions on geodata type without making a SQL Table in Data module

We want to use spatial functions with spatial data type in informix in a datamodule. We have a lot of tables containing a spatial data type. We want it to have it like in framework manager. DEV TS005539448: I got a response from dev team and there...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration