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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Improve the certificate chain validation step in Cognos Configuration so that it also checks 3rd-Party certs, and alerts if expiry is approaching.

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the "encryption" chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Allow Multiple Alert Banners to be Created

The ability to create Alert Banners is great. We would like the ability to create more than 1 banner for notifications. We will use this alert banner to notify users of certain updates to the system. For example, when our general ledger informatio...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed.

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Maintenance of Images library in Cognos Analytic Cloud

Managing Images in Cognos Analytics Cloud is not convenient:- when adding images to reports, we are not able to browse folders to locate images.- the synchronisation mechanism between our server and IBM cloud servers is handling only 1 single flat...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered