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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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LifeCycle Manager gives 'No Prompts Required' message but the Cognos Report has a Prompt page.

Report has a prompt page. LifeCycle Manager does not read the prompts though in the application for some reason. The work around is that we need to compare the report outputs manually instead of setting them as a Project in LCM. Report details:...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring Case TS001884812 A joined query with a filter is not selectable item in report Authoring. On the joined query there is a filter, if we not use the joined query, the filter is no...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Requesting support for SharePoint 2019 Preview

Looking for a support date on SharePoint 2019 Preview and Watson Analytics.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: change the left/right scroll arrows to move an entire task, not a teeny bit at a time

while editing an agent, author can scroll tasks via the right and left scroll buttons. The problem it takes about 3 clicks to reveal just one task. Change the horizontal movement to be 1 click moves one whole task.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add property to suppres subtotals when there is only X members (Usually 1)

When there are subtotals on a report (Report Studio, Analysis Studio (I know, end of life), there are times when there is only one row that has the sub total, and other groupings have more than one row. I think it would be clearer if I could suppr...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Improve visualization of time-series data in Cognos 10

Properties of Cognos are very limited when it comes to visualization of time-series data. Cognos allows only fixed intervals between measurements instead of having actual true time intervals. Due to this limitation an exponential increase of follo...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[ENH] Ability to drill through to multiple burst child reports in active report in mobile.

When the customer creates 1 parent active report and multiple child active reports the customer isn't able to drill through to one specific report. It just picks one at random due to the nature of bursting. The customer would like to be able to dr...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve drill up/down performance when using new chart authoring and DQM

One of our users is requesting to improve drill up/down performance when using; 1. New chart authoring.2. Dynamic Query Mode.3. Master-Detail relation ship. 4. The chart are inserted into the list column. We have no way to gain good performance cu...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lose Conditional formatting when Column is Added to Crosstab

In Cognos Workspace Advanced when creating a report (for example a crosstab) adding a fact column to the report resets any formatting changes made to existing columns in the report. Note when applying the formatting to the ""Crosstab Fact Cells"" ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter on more than 1 query item thats not in report body of workspace

In workspace, we cannot filter on more than 1 query item if those query items are not in the report body. We do not display all the items in the body everytime, but if we donot include them in body we are unable to filter on them. We are restricte...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration