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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

My parameters behavior don't have expected behavior

When you're report use the "My parameters" functionnality and save as report view (by using the "save as report view" button), the value of the selection of the "My parameters" is stored in the report view details. When the values has been stored ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Bursting option in schedules of report views

Creating a schedule for a report view which refers to a report with bursting configured does not show the bursting option. The bursting option is only available in the schedule properties of the report itself.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add extra table(s) to a view of tables in data module

Using release 11.1x we like the ability to create a view of tables in a data module like we used query subjects in framework manager. Unfortunately it's not possible to add extra to tables to a existing view after the creation. This means that in ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Cognos to connect to and query materialized views in Google BigQuery.

Querying a materialized view is often more performant than querying a standard view because the results are precomputed and cached. This is ideal for dashboards and reports that run predictable and repeated queries. A BigQuery materialized view is...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 3 Not under consideration

Default Action as 'Run the report'

When new reports are created with Report Studio, the default action in report properties is set as 'View Most Recent Report'. I would like a global option to be able to set this as 'Run the Report' for newly created reports. I'm not asking for a w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration