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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

View filter selection values in Workspace Advanced Report

When making a report using Cognos Workspace Advanced the paramvalues from the selection made on the prompt page are not displayed as they were in query studio. When a user creates a filter that is prompted a report expression that shows the select...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Analysis, Workspace etc. directly from the package

Currently, we are able to see only Report and Dashboard creation options, in the 'More' options of the package. It will be convenient if we can open all other studios, like Event, Analysis, Workspace, etc., directly from the package itself.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Wrokspace Advanced Tool Drill Through

When authoring in Cognos Workspace or Cognos Workspace Advanced a Context Filter is not passed to a target drill through report SymptomMissing expected drill through parameter CauseThis functionality is not supported in this release. It has been l...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos should be embeddable in applications using Standards Mode

Should not mandate Quirks Mode and Compatibility View. For example some of the IE9 Standards Mode issues we currently are facing:->While running the report in XML format, the report output is showing as text format in viewer page ->Report St...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Pass Context Filters as Drill parameters

Context filters from Workspace Advanced are not being passed as drill-through parameters. This is known behaviour, tech note from Dec 2014:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21511919 Desired behaviour: Context filters are passed as d...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Show date the cube was updated in Workspace Advanced

our customer want to see the cube updated on date in Workspace Advanced - as this is possible in Report Studio and Analysis Studio
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration