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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need to calculation a summary value for calculated ratios based on calculations and not by average in Dashboard

If we create any ratio calculations in the dashboard by default the resulting value is summed up, which is wrong. Also, if we change the summary property to average then it is giving a value which is nearly right but we are not getting the exact v...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

E-Mails via REST API instead of SMTP

We are currently using IBM Cognos Analytics and have configured an SMTP server (including account and password) under Local Configuration > Data Access > Notification in the IBM Cognos Configuration. The SMTP server receives all emails, chec...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

12.1 New UI Change

On the new home screen if I navigate to a folder and want to do an upload, there is no upload option except to go through the Create option but then I can't navigate to a particular folder, and it seems to assume I want to drop my file in My Conte...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show the borders for the maps regions in 11.1 Visualization

User was using old legacy map manager maps where it cleary shows the borders for the map regions . Now client converted to use 11.1 new map visualization where we are using shape file which has NYC Precincts with borders , we used in mapbox to cre...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added

Case number TS007058586 It is single server installation of CA 11.1.7 on Wins 2016 server. Issue: When a visualization is copied from one dashboard to another a new datalink will be added even though the data source (package) is the same. Step-by-...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration