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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review
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View data source of Cognos package

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In Cognos 10 you can view the data source of a Cognos package by following the steps described in the link https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.2.2.doc/t_viewpackagedatasources.html#ViewPacka...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

Change a package associated to a report

In 10.2.2 and before, you could click on the report properties and update the package a report points to. In Cognos 11, it appears you cannot do that, unless you load the classic view (Cognos Connection). This makes moving or copying multiple item...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered